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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
March 13th
1) 7 gets to the rail. The 2 and 3 both come off the rail to go by. The 7 also floats out. The 7 looks beat, but is guided back towards the rail. Then, voila, it takes off again.
2) 1 horse was taken off the rail..please note the particularly good effort by the #2 pig called Daniella Roth. She hugged the rail the whole way.
3) the #1 horse was taken outside by Smith, and failed out there. It's probably why he stayed inside with Zenyata later on.
4) turf
5)1
6)1
7)1 horse(a little pig runt) ran 2nd to Zenyata(who was also kept inside.)
8) turf
9) Interactif has a big inside move(against a soft pace leader) after breaking from the 2 hole
10) 21.53, 44.38 pace ..resulted in a 75-1 shot getting up late
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You are clearly the type of person that screams bias when you cherry-pick certain aspects of the results.
A bias exists when horses who seemingly are incapable of doing something, do it with relative ease. The fact that the 50-1 shot for a notoriously good trainer held on for second (by a nose) after setting moderate fractions is not emblematic of a bias. Let's look at the races run on the Pro-Ride.
Race 1- The 3-1 winner races 2-3 paths off the rail the entire way. If this gold rail/speed bias existed then why didn't Swiss Emperor mop him up, he hugged the rail the whole way?
Race 2- The 3/2 winner again races 2-3 wide to the top of the stretch before holding on over a horse who switches to the wrong lead for the final 100 yards! How come this speed favoring track didn't help Daniella Roth, the pacesetter?
Race 3- This one is absolutely hilarious. The winner is never anywhere near the inside and in fact, the 2nd place finisher has one of the all-time perfect trips and still can't hang on. There's absolutely no way a person could watch this race and believe that this was a biased track. None. If you believe this track was biased then you need to contact the Little Red Feather people and let them know they have a stakes horse on their hands in Valkyrie Missile.
Race 5- A one-way speed horse (who was lone speed on paper) gets away with MURDER on the front end and holds on to win by a diminishing margin. The eventual 4th place finisher sits a perfect trip just behind the lead and has nothing in the stretch drive.
Race 6- The 13-10 favorite wins and despite breaking from the rail he races at least 3-4 wide from the half-mile pole in. How did leading rider Rafael Bejarano not get the memo that this track had a gold rail? Surely he wouldn't have taken his horse that wide if that was the case.
Races 7 and 9- I've watched both of these stakes races enough to know that they played true to form based on race flow. Dance to My Tune was given an uncontested lead and was able to set moderate fractions and narrowly held on for second over a slew of very average horses. Sidney's Candy waltzed along and Caracortado miraculously didn't have the same punch when he attempted to race against a poor setup.
Race 10- The one you conveniently dismiss because of the pace. Right, the pace completely collapsed. The $75 winner is never near the rail yet is still able to win.
If you think Caracortado is still a good horse then that's OK. Plenty of people have varying opinions right now. Just don't use something flimsy to back it up and try to turn something that you've made so clearly subjective into something objective.
NT