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Originally Posted by JJP
He easily could've done that. The horse sitting 4th in the Haw Gold Cup was 13 lengths out after 6f...and he was an early speed horse.
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When Redding Collery ran the 107 Beyer in that Grade 3 at Lone Star - he pressed a brilliant sprinter named Euroears who routinely would run 21 and change fractions sprinting.
On Oct 29th of last year, Redding Collery got into a bitter speed duel going 6 furlongs at AQU with a horse named Immortal Eyes - he won the speed duel - and held on to win the race. Immortal Eyes won a 100K stakes race going wire-to-wire at 4.5 furlongs a couple of races later.
RC is fast enough to run with just about any speed sprinter in the country - he's game enough to win a Grade 2 at 10fs despite running at a virtual sprint throughout - and he can rate kindly enough that if a jockey takes hold out of the gate .. he will respond to the restraint and could go 26 flat and 51 without getting too rank.
He's a pretty neat horse because he has so much stamina for a front-running sprinter.