Hollywood movie kind of race today at Pimlico

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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Not to be a kill joy ... but this was an incredibly slow race.

Earlier on in the card, a 3-year-old filly won an 8K maiden claiming race at the same distance in 1:50.30

This was a 20-to-25K MCL for males rained off the turf. The final time of 1:52.16 was 10 lengths slower than it took the bottom level maiden girls to go the distance.

Even if the horse with the dramatic troubled trip had 10 lengths worth of trouble, which I think he probably did, that's only good enough to put him in a photo finish with bottom level fillies.

Obviously, this is a stern test to the "there are no trips in slow races" rule ... but the right thing to do is bet against everything but the 2nd place finisher. And honestly, the way this race is being shown all over the Internet, I'd definitely want to bet against the 2nd place finisher the next time he runs as well.

Of course it was a slow race, a horse that stopped and started twice got nosed. He did, however, have way more than 10 lengths of trouble.