Derby prep final quarter time

[Secretriat34]

Originally Posted by Port Conway Lane

I stated the point...he lost by a whisker at sa and came home faster in the final 3/8. The data you post is reverse engineering, taking a result ( ky derby ) and using a previous result ( sa derby ) to fit your criteria ( fastest closing time in prep race ) only you ignored a faster closing time. Not only that, you cherry picked derby results that fit your theory, while ignoring countless other years where the horse with the fastest closing time in a prep failed to win the derby.

well you seem to be reading a lot more into it than just a post comparing past derby winners and their final 3/8ths times to this years colts.
there is no theory
I simply read the list of this year colts that had closing times under 1:48 and type what i read.