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Old 08-07-2007, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Maybe someone with the time can do that.

No matter how painfully slow they make the early pace in those route races, the closers still seem to dominate....and the closers don't look like they are rallying....it's more like the "speed" horses run through the stretch as if a sniper in the grandstand hit them.
I agree that pure speed doesn't seem to hold as well on artificial surfaces on routes as on some other particular tracks' dirt surfaces. I had to adjust to that when Keeneland changed over.

Any data we can ferret out about any particular tracks' idiosyncracies helps us beat the general public, no matter the track.
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