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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Disagree with this. The slow race wasn't only by her but also the horses she beat. Her injury may add to her performance and perhaps it's logical to think she could have gone a bit faster without the injury. But the second and third finishers didn't come out with injuries so that doesn't change the fact that the grade one race went slower than the next one.
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Yes. And if she had been 100%, and able to run to her (130 rating) - correction, Timeform rates her at
136, rather than the 115 that race got, she may have smoked the other race in time, and beaten that field by 10 lengths. We don't know. Have you ever watched the mares previous races? She holds the all-time, all-Australia record for the fastest 200 meters mid-race ever: 9 plus seconds. What American race horses have ever run 9-10 second furlongs mid-race in a 6 or 7 furlong race? I'm sure there are a few, but it's rare - a job for Lord to search his records and find out for us.