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Originally Posted by Kasept
Doug,
This is very cool. Beyond the projections of pars, what are you using to project the speed of the track on any particular day?
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Everything else you would use to project the speed of the track on yesterday's results. Parallel time charts, beaten length adjustments, etc.
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Originally Posted by Kasept
(And Haskin agrees with you that Coastal is under-appreciated.)
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Coastal ran nine times as a 3-year-old. He had a record of 9-6-1-2 and pretty much lived in the 117-to-124 Beyer range... and did that while facing some of the absolute toughest competition of any 3-year-old in history.
Two of his three defeats came to the older horse Affirmed (at peak form) and one of them to Spectacular Bid.
Coastal had a big closing kick as well...and could stay any distance (won the Tyro at 5.5 furlongs, won the Belmont at 12fs) and he could also handle a wet racetrack.