AQU: Fri/Sat Stakes

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I also think there's a very distinct possibility that Midnight Lute has serious distance limitations.

Any human sprinter (100M or 200M) would have trouble stretching out to 400M or 1/2 mile,for example, so, in that sense, ML was at a disadvantage going up against a distance horse that had early speed. And no matter how much/specifically Baffet trained him for the mile, I don't think there's any way a horse could overcome this disadvantage ---especially if it didn't figure to make the front and (try to) control the pace.

But an interesting question is which horse out there presently do you think would've been able to run down Daaher, given the way the race shaped up? This just might put that effort into perspective.