Best Race of the Weekend?

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The Lure - the only other turf race on the Travers card - was also run with a slow pace in relation to final time.

Get Stormy went wire-to-wire and paid $17.00 ... 6/1 Mikoshi, who was 2nd after a quarter mile, finished 2nd. $127 exacta. It was almost 7 lengths back to 3rd.

In the vast majority of races I get that come back with a slow-fast race shape ... it's not about when you move.

If you think Captain's Lover was really getting the worst of it that's your problem. She finished 4.5 lengths in front of Closeout. Next time they meet, I'll take Closeout and the points.

I might be missing your point about the LURE but, then again, since you didn't call the exacta before the fact, I'm just going to ignore it.

On to what we know:

The Lure went 1-2-6-9 (1st call) around the track.

The race in question went 7-5-4-2 around the track.

Forgetting about everything that happened before, during and after these races, at least, we might agree, that if both were SLOW PACED races, then they'd SHAPE UP the same. Huh? My only point is that saying a PACE IS SLOW, when the front runners collapse, and not just one of them but all the pace setters, is just STUPID. If you weren't fixated on time, you'd understand this. What collapsed the latter race is the 4th split moves (which just happened to be the fastest split). As such, the winner got the best of it.

Of course, you're too busy trying to get the horses to fit your method rather than letting how they run dictate your method.