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Originally Posted by easy goer
Or alternatively, these horses are not that good. How would one be able to tell the difference? Was the pace real hot or were the horses not that good? Is there a way to tell?
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I think its a judgement call, and you have to look at the given circumstances and try to make a guess, where they not good or were they pace victims, or a combination of both. I say it was both.
In my way of looking at it, if it was a tepid pace then even some of these horses that perhaps aren't so good would have held on better, and not faded so badly. Can they all really be SO bad that the would immediately beat such a hasty retreat giving up massive amounts of ground in the final part of the race? Maybe they were a cut below the top class in the race, but because they all retreated so badly I am more inclined to think that a swift pace aided them significantly in their retreats.