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Old 11-27-2010, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Betsy View Post
On the other hand, people also get impressed with horses that close a ton of ground..........even if those races were handed to them on a silver platter (the winner of that 2 year old 7 furlong race today, for example).
Yes - horses like Ice Box and Make Music For Me get rewarded for making up insane amounts of ground in a pace collapse ... both of them performed miserably in a much slower paced race like the Belmont.
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