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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I have to disagree big time on the race setup favoring Music Note in the Alabama.
I thought Little Belle was crawling on an unpressured lead - and was clearly the setup horse in there.
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Little Belle (Music Note's stablemate as you know) did get an upressured lead, which, when the running really started gave Proud Spell a little more work to do to establish a clear lead at the top of the stretch.
Music Note got to bide her time and move for the front as she pleased, just as she did in the CCA Oaks. Only this time, instead of rocketing away past the hopeless front markers, she cruised up alongside a game racehorse that she clearly had the better of, got looked in the eye, and gave it up.