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Originally Posted by Cardus
I think that the "Pimlico has tighter turns that favor frontrunners" angle is on its last legs. I don't hear it nearly as much as I did 10 years ago. Stalkers and closers do well in this race.
I recall a Paul Moran column (Newsday, Long Island) years ago in which he wrote that the degree of sharpness of its turns were measured against that of Churchill Downs, and that they were almost the same. This might sound counterintuitive, but it was such a radical departure from the "tighter turns" theory that I believed the information that Moran cited.
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You are exactly right, the "tight turns" at Pimlico is a myth. The major difference, obviously, is the difference between the Churchill/Pimlico turns and the far sweeping turns at Belmont. Not that I like him, but I think Jerry Bailey debunked this tight turns theory on the Preakness ESPN broadcast last May.