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Originally Posted by mp3
the extra sixteenth means nothing. It is the way the race plays out that will determine its result. If nobody leaves with him the distance won't matter, it may actually help him because many of these horses have never been close to a mile and a quarter and there riders will restrain them even harder earlier
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What? The extra 1/16th means everything with that horse. He is a speedball who eventually will run out of gas. Nobody bothered him last race and he barely made it to the wire. This race he has to go 1/16th more. Like I said, against these horses he might hang on, but I doubt you see him in the grade 1 in 4 weeks because Showing Up and Bill Mott's horse would humiliate him at 10F.
Maybe BC Mile or something like that, but 10F is a lot to ask for a horse that can't rate. Ask Sinister Minister.