I don't blame them for correcting a mistake Dunbar.
I obviously disagreed with the original figure, and wrote the following in a post on this website just days after the race...and a good month before the figure was corrected.
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Summer Doldrums is bred to thrive over a distance of ground.
His sire Street Cry won the 1 1/4 mile Dubai World Cup in supreme fashion over tough stablemate Sakhee.
His dam sire, Unacounted For, was beaten just one length by Cigar, at level weights, in the 1995 Jockey Club Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles. Cigar was a perfect 10-for-10 that season, and no one got closer to him all year than Unaccounted For did that day.
The female family is laced with sprinter/miler types---and is a nice injection of speed into the pedigree.
I don't pay any attention to dosage at all. This horse really has stepped his game up with the added distance....however, I have a hard time believing he's as good as that 106 Beyer suggests.
Each of the top four finishers in the Whirlaway Stakes had double digit new career tops---and with only one other route race on the AQU card, and a widely talked about rail bias---there are a lot of fluky things surrounding the race from a figure making standpoint.
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