Zenyatta's late pace figs

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

In other words - she didn't finish quite as strongly on dirt or cushion - because she ran a little faster than usual through the early parts of those races.

Did she actually run faster early in the BCC last year than she typically had been? Visually it looked like she was running about the same but because it was dirt, she was much farther back than she ever was in her synthetic races.
Either way, the race certainly set up perfectly for her....a seemingly obvious point that her many apologists somehow overlooked.