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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Left Bank, Lido Palace, Street Cry, and Macho Uno were all real horses.
I think Commentator and Left Bank would have hurt each others chances and neither would have had much of a shot if both broke well.
I think people would be making a mistake getting too caught up in the speed figures for Whitney Day.
The track was not only a little wet - but maitenence was obviously done on it - and it was probably the type of track that some horses might have got over a little better than others.
If it was a straight forward day with a typical fast track - I'd have loved Student Council's race - it takes a very good horse to run a 112 Beyer while as uncomfortable as he seemed to be by taking so much dirt in his face. Nothing about his trip was especially real easy either.
I just think Student Council probably liked running over that funky surface a lot more than many of the also-rans.
It was a little like the all-time record figure BC Cup Juvenile of last year with a loose Zito loving the ground and running a monster number - an Asmussen horse in Pyro getting on track well late and being the only horse not to get totally blown off the tv screen..while the others seemed to all struggle.
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Appreciate the thought process that went into your answer, I can't be as scientific with my opinion only to say that pace dynamics seems to determine how effective Commentator does in his races. He's won 2 Whitney's and that accords him respect in my mind, however I agree with the belief that he would have been hard pressed to win and even perhaps hit the board in the Left Bank run Whitney years ago.