Big Brown Beyer 109

[Better Than Honour]

wow. that is a slow group or just very distance challenged.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Better Than Honour

wow. that is a slow group or just very distance challenged.

Your first point was well taken.. that the winner/runner up figs needed to be aligned so that the rest of the front half of the field fell in line. This point is a bit off the mark in that the typically strewn apart Derby field is always going to have stragglers with exceedingly slow numbers. The chart, and in fact most everything about this Derby, ended up pretty 'normal'... from the winner's fig to the running time/splits, etc.. The crop may prove out average or slighly below average once we get to the fall.

There's obviously one colt at the head of the class, but let the turf horses make their move to the grass, the one turners get back to sprinting, and the late developers catch up, and it could still turn out that this bunch is just a solid, typical crop.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Better Than Honour

wow. that is a slow group or just very distance challenged.

There is no 'or' there. They are slow and distance challenged. Big Brown ran the last two furlongs in 25.25 and Denis of Cork was the only one to make up any ground on him and even he was coming home in 24.97. Anak Nakal plodded up for 7th finishing in an atrocious 26.09. The 'closer' Colonel John finished in 27.17 and still managed to finish 6th.