Surviving hot and contested paces

[Calzone Lord]

Seattle Slew's Kentucky Derby is a great example of it as well.

It was a painfully slow race and came back terrible on figures (Beyers, Ragozins, and my projections) -- but he ran tremendous to blow the break from such a big field and bull his way into a speed duel. Win the battle and the war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWO0QgZKoYY

Had any even marginally respectable closer been in that race and showed up they would have got him -- but it was still a great performance.