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Originally Posted by oracle80
That wasnt an average pace, and if you dont know that then this is a waste of time.
Like I said, look at the charts and check out the pace in teh Secretariat and Beverly D. This pace was a freakish fluke like none Ive ever seen.
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I wasn't saying that the pace was average in the Million. The pace was obviously very slow in the Million. I was saying that if you have a front-runner that has a better burst of speed than the closers, then the front-runner will win as long as the pace is not really fast. If the pace is average, then the front-runner will win. In another words, I think TTM would have won the Million even if he had to go :48.
By the way, I don't think looking at the charts tells you nearly as much as watching the race. The final margin of victory may have only been a length or a length and a quarter, but it was much easier than that in reality. TTM blew them away in the stretch. Cacique lost about 3 lengths to TTM from the quarter pole to the 1/16th pole. The race was over at this point. I don't know if TTM was necessarily all out that final 100 yards.