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Originally Posted by hurricanefrank

Fat Man you've inserted your own premise; I don't believe I made mention in my post of noticing pace differences of less than a second. I won't quibble with you on that point. The quarter splits in the San Antonio were a good TWO seconds or 10 lengths slower than what we could have expected from G2 animals at Santa Anita. No way will I agree that no jock in that race could tell that the pace was tortoise like. Heck Fat Man, exercise jocks throughout the country work horses for top stables every morning to the second. No, judging pace ain't easy. But the best jocks that are the ones that can do it better than the others. After thousands of rides Garrett Gomez can tell the difference between a 47 half and a 49 half.

Well said.