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Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay
Big Brown is not slow. 
The times may be slow, but the way the races set up make the final times slow.
You have horses like Visionaire going up to NY, not switching leads in the stretch, and running a higher Beyer than a horse like Pyro that beat Visionaire in his previous start. Sierra Sunset-99. Georgie Boy-92, Pyro-95, Colonel John-86, El Gato Malo-85. These horses can all run Sierra Sunset into the ground.
Colonel John-last furlong...11.8 seconds
El Gato Malo-last furlong...11.2 seconds.
I don't know how much faster a horse is supposed to run than that. Again, I don't think these horses are slow. I won't change these statements. Well, not until they prove me otherwise. |
Fast horses, by my definition at least, by running the whole race fast, not just selected parts. I haven't seen any horse do that yet.
In the races this year, the horses either go too slow early to record a decent final time, or they go fast and collapse. Think about this one...War Emblem won the Derby at 20-1. He'd be about even money against this crop as it stands right now.