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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
Saint Liam had gone 108/113/108 going into that race.
Seek Gold going in had Beyer's of 93/92/99 and got an 86 for his 4th place finish in the Woodward. His next three after the race were 92/99/108.
Midway Road ran a 70 Beyer that day finishing 6th. He'd run a 106 in his previous race and ran 107 next out. He ran an 83 when he stunk up the Foster two races prior to the Woodward.
Presidential Affair was last with a 53 Beyer, he hadn't been under 80 in his past 13 starts and was only under 90 in three of those.
Unfortunately I can't find figures for Bowman's Band who was 3rd and Newfoundland who was 5th.
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Thanks for those numbers, Sniper. I'm pretty sure that Newfoundland had run 100+ BSFs coming into the Woodward. Not as certain about Bowman's Band.
To me those numbers suggest that the figs in the Woodward were perhaps too low. But at the same time, it suggests that there would have been no logic in Beyer thinking there was a single-race variant because St Liam wasn't fast enough to run better than a 114. I'm not saying Beyer didn't do that; I'm saying if he did it, it wasn't logical. The way it came out, I think every horse in the race except for St. Liam got a worse Beyer than it's previous race.
--Dunbar