4/9 (AQU): Wood, Carter (G1's), Comely, Bay Shore (G3's)

[The Indomitable DrugS]

It's a fine card in my opinion - what annoys me about it though - is that the Wood Memorial is the only two-turn dirt race on the entire 11-race card.

Basically - you can't trust any speed figure or any pace figure from this race. It's almost pointless to even assign a figure to this race. Especially pace wise.

You've got a big field of lightly raced 3-year-olds without a lot of established route form. A truly worthless situation to assign numbers to a race like this.

These are situations where even final time numbers can sometimes look 8-to-12 points wrong several months later. In terms of judging the pace - you're left playing The Fat Man's game of where did the speeds finish? How did the closers fair? etc. Which is certainly fine in a typical type of race - but can sometimes be misleading in a race like this.