Another Impressive "Street Sense" Work

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

A bottom level claimer, at the same distance, set faster fractions earlier on in the card--and still went wire-to-wire.

AND, furthermore, that same bottom level claimer who went wire-to-wire, had never shown any hint of serious speed at any time in his career.

If you look at the naked fractions, I can see how you can be misled into thinking that there was a decent early pace in that race---but if you look at the other route races on that card---and the form of those horses setting those paces---I don't think anyone could argue with how slow that pace was.

Using naked fractions is every bit as faulty as using naked final times...you have to take into account how other horses on that card perform.

We disagree then, to me that race exposed a lack of versatility on Hard Spuns part. The points about being taken in hand, being wide, and against the bias to me don't add up to the clunker he threw in there. I mean that race did not not exactly represent a who's who of the crop.

He is still a puzzle for me because while I was so unimpressed with his Southwest, his comeback in the LanesEnd I thought was an exceptional effort.