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Originally Posted by cmorioles
One thing that is lost in this, in my opinion, is that the premature move was the only way he was going to beat Dunkirk. Allowing him to run up front through moderate fractions (yes, moderate), and waiting til the end was not going to work either.
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It is tough to tell. Charitable Man did make it ten furlongs so he may have been able to press Dunkirk long enough to soften him up for the stretch. Who knows, maybe no early move by Mine that Bird could have made for a Dunkirk/Charitable Man/Mine that Bird/Summer Bird superfecta.