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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
What other board do I know you from?
You do realize that that race was THE FIRST ROUTE RACE run over Del Mar's polytrack? Right?
If you look at the way my post was structured, it was CLEARLY done so to show that jockeys and trainers had made a correction from seeing what happened in the first two races.
No **** 47 1/5, for 10K claiming fillies, is fast compared to 50 3/5ths for 75K older males in an allowance race.
Once again, you do realize that ZERO route races over the Del Mar polytrack had been run at the time of the 47 1/5th fraction??
I called it a truly run race because the riders rode the race as though they'd ride the race normally over dirt.
It's remarkable that I need to keep explaining something like this.
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Even if the jockeys rode that first race way too fast early the pace setter hung on at least as well as he had done in his prior races if not better. Would that horse have hung on as well in a 46 change on the drit?
The same is true of the pace setter in the second race.
Apart from the 7th where the splits very exceptionally slow (and the best horses finished well) pace setters ran ok...
I just dont see that these races look all that ugly if you take away the clock. The times are slower but the sprints have looked fair to me and the routes maybe edging closers but that isnt all that much different from a track like Belmont right?