They haven't ran many times at 10f on the synthetic stuff at SA, but I would venture a guess that the pace figure for the Big Cap is about 60 Beyer points or so faster to the 6f call than the aptly named Sham. For those not up on the Beyer scale, that is only about 24 lengths.
The Gulfstream race was also ridiculously slow early as well. It think it is time to face the fact that our horses pretty much suck at any distance over about 1m1/16. There was a time not long ago when Graded races for older horses on dirt were always run with a fast pace. These slow paced contests were very rare exceptions. Now, the opposite situation prevails.
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