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Originally Posted by Cajungator26
Perhaps hard to catch, but I highly doubt that a front runner would be 'sprinting' towards the end. If anything, he probably would have been hanging on for the win, don't you think? I liked Hard Spun to win, so I was a bit frustrated when I saw what was happening, but he looked pretty damn tired to me regardless. IF he was on the front end setting slow fractions like that, I still doubt he would have sped up very much at the end.
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Even in the Derby, after setting incredibly fast fractions, HS out-kicked the entire field(with the exception of SS) from the 3/8 pole to the wire. HS had around a 2-3 length lead at the 3/8 pole and by the time they came to the 1/16th pole, he had a 5 length lead on everyone except for SS.
If you look at most of his other races, he puts the most daylight on the field in the stretch, not early in the race.