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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
I think I see what you're getting at but I don't quite think this part is relevant. Plenty of horses have been favored or second choices in their initial foray against older horses. Diamond Stripes won his second race, a NW1X, late at Saratoga last summer. I'm not exactly sure which races versus olders he missed while racing and ready.
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That's exactly my point. In modern times racing, he missed nothing. The Foster was, I think, the third 9F+ G1 of the year following the Donn and SAH. Pre-Breeders Cup, you would never have seen a horse with his resume prep for a race like this with a single race against n3x competition and come in it arguably worthy of being second choice.