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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
okay then. if she ever runs in another 9 furlong Gr1 i think there will be some surprised people. she has never run a race that fast early, middle, and late. her other good numbers were produced by more favorable set-ups. everything in her pp's tells me that she should have been slowing down much more at Monmouth in the late stages. but like I said she wasn't the only one that never slowed down that day.
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The difference with those other frontrunners that held on (Indian Blessing, War Pass, Gotcha Gold, Hard Spun) was that they had things their own way in the early part of the race. Hystericalady broke from the outside post, dueled throughout, and still held sway. If it was solely the track that kept her going the whole time, and not her talent, then I wonder why other seemingly outclassed horses like Hard Spun and Gotcha Gold didn't make much more noise at the finish with more favorablel setups than their rather modest distant 2nd place finishes.