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Originally Posted by somerfrost
Yeah, when he opened it up as usual heading into the far turn I was jumping up and down in my living room...the TV had posted the first half mile split time and it seemed manageable...after the shock wore off I went to the computer and saw that second half and just shook my head...no horse except the great Secretariat could have continued on after that second half mile...the effect it had on the others who ran with Smarty was obvious...in any reasonably run 12f race against those horses, Smarty wins by 10 lengths...and that was not, as pointed out, a bad field!
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Just a reminder, Smarty ran the following fractions in the Belmont:
24 2/5, 48 4/5, 1:11 3/5, 1:35 2/5, 2:00 2/5....before struggling home in 2:27 3/5.
That means his first half mile was in 48 4/5
The second suicidal half he ran in 46 3/5 including 22 4/5 for the two furlongs between 4-6f
so...2f splits: 24 2/5, 24 2/5, 22 4/5, 23 4/5, 25, 27....horses can't do that second half in a 12f race and survive!