Should be a great Wood Memorial card that gets drawn today.
Still, I'll be more excited about it if we get one other dirt route carded.
Last year, you had an 11-race card with no other dirt route, and a 30+ MPH headwind down the backstretch to further distort an often fickle relationship between one-turn dirt races and two turn dirt races at AQU main.
The Wood Memorial where Congaree, in his stakes debut, smoked Monarchos and the top 3 all came back to run huge was another one where it was a tough race to gauge because it was the days only route.
The figures made with algorithms and no human judgement of any kind like Equibase and BRIS both had some weird stuff come back on Wood day last year.
Alpha raced in Mid-pack in the Wood, and he got a blistering 134 pace figure from Equibase like he was Caller One or something:
Any one single other race carded at 9fs on dirt, regardless the class, will be a great victory today, if that happens.
If not, hopefully the weather is par, or the race is brutally true to form.