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Originally Posted by zippyneedsawin
I guess you're right, it takes skill to find trouble and get trapped on the rail in a 5-horse field.
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The horse sucked up and got loose in the stretch with plenty of room to run. She got the best trip in the field, running the least amount of ground.
Would you have preferred she was with the pace, like the winner? She would've lost that way, too. The bottom line is that she wasn't good enough. When sprinters, that are stretching out slightly, allow cutback horses to run with the pace, THEY CAN'T WIN cause they can't finish with them.
Here are the last three splits of the race: 23.54 23.04 11.37 (projects to
22.74).