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Old 05-05-2008, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Better Than Honour
wow. that is a slow group or just very distance challenged.
Your first point was well taken.. that the winner/runner up figs needed to be aligned so that the rest of the front half of the field fell in line. This point is a bit off the mark in that the typically strewn apart Derby field is always going to have stragglers with exceedingly slow numbers. The chart, and in fact most everything about this Derby, ended up pretty 'normal'... from the winner's fig to the running time/splits, etc.. The crop may prove out average or slighly below average once we get to the fall.

There's obviously one colt at the head of the class, but let the turf horses make their move to the grass, the one turners get back to sprinting, and the late developers catch up, and it could still turn out that this bunch is just a solid, typical crop.
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