How a horse improves by 20+ lengths in a month...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

So Pletcher should have said she needed a race, made an ill-advised middle move at FG and was facing an overrated N1X winner, a stretched out middle distance horse and a CA shipper from a trainer who's 0 for his last 13 with horses going from synthetics to dirt in stakes races.

I'm not so sure she needed a race .. he said she was training big going into that race and was puzzled by her performance but blamed it on her acting up in the gate.

The performance was actually big... the result wasn't.

She ran an absolutely monster race for 6f considering she was only 1 length off a torrid pace figure at that stage .. consider further that she was 5w and 3w and the pace setter was rail, rail ... she actually covered 6 lengths more of ground than the horse setting the blistering pace. Which would skyrocket her pace number to the moon .. and that's not even considering that FG is the last track in the country where you want to race wide on the turns.