Street Sense finally will get his chance to silence doubter

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by JJP

I thought Street Sense ran a great race last fall over the Poly at Keeneland. The pace was fast; he made a huge, very wide sustained run into the pace; while Great Hunter and Circular Quay had the ideal pace set ups. Factoring the ground loss and being much closer to the fast pace, IMO there's no doubt he was the superior horse that day, which he verified in winning the Breeders Cup in his next start.

Watch Circular Quay on the keeneland futurity race view, and head-on view in that race. He is going to make a run, and when he is about to swing outside he is completely trapped into the turn, slams out against the horse who trapped him inside several times throughout the turn, finally breaks out of that and still gets 2nd. Much the best in that race.

Street Sense had to go wide and he is a much better dirt horse than polytrack so it was a good effort for him as well.


There is also a nice overhead shot of CQ getting trapped on one of the old wire-to-wire videos or else in a preview to the risen star.

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

Watch Circular Quay on the keeneland futurity race view, and head-on view in that race. He is going to make a run, and when he is about to swing outside he is completely trapped into the turn, slams out against the horse who trapped him inside several times throughout the turn, finally breaks out of that and still gets 2nd. Much the best in that race.

He bumps once (or twice) with the horse to his outside on the turn NEVER losing stride. He's not trapped. He never breaks stride. He's just typically sucking along waiting for the others to run so that he picks up the pieces.
What I particularly enjoyed was his stretch run, where he's clunking along and the jock hits him lefty and he drifts out and then the jock switches the whip and he drifts in. He was Full of Run, to say the least. Was he drunk?

[Bobby Fischer]

On the head-on view from calracing:
time - amateur analysis
1:05 - horses enter the far turn
1:08 - circular quay starts outside (on rail blue orange - looks purple)
1:11 - CQ trapped inside of Birdbirdistheword (yellow on side of CQ)
1:18 - CQ still trapped horses brush
1:20 - trapped Johnny V. Slams CQ into Birdbirdistheword while yelling expletives
1:21 - CQ swings out to try to bump again but Bird is finally moving
1:35 - Velasquez cuts off birdistheturd
1:50- CQ appears to pass poorHunter after the wire