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Originally Posted by HaloWishingwell
This crop is allergic to a 100 Beyer.
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The synthetic track route race figures are pretty dumbed down - especially the ones run at slow paces featuring younger horses.
Hard Spun got a 101 Beyer in the Spiral last year - and he won it by daylight. Dominican got a 93 for running down Street Sense in the Blue Grass...and that figure was corrected significantly because of the extreme slow pace, and would have been in the 80's if not.
The problem is, unlike last year when horses like Street Sense and Hard Spun had excellent credentials on dirt going into the Derby - the horses who are winning these synthetic track route races with the dumbed down figures have either never run over dirt or haven't been effective on it.
The more troubling thing to me is how slow the dirt preps have been.