Was Masochistic stiffed in his debut?

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Well ... it wasn't the greatest moment for the Pace Projector...



He only had one horse beaten in the pace projector ... and yet he rolled on a loose lead through a 21 flat opening quarter mile.

Of course, having Berrio strangle the horse into submission, throughout his debut, probably hurt his pace figure.

Obviously, that is never going to be as reliable for lightly raced horses.

I wasn't trying to say you were wrong or anything, just saying that even given his "trip" first out, he ran faster than anyone else in the field had overall. It said more about his competition today than anything he had done.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

It said more about his competition today than anything he had done.

Yeah...that was the eventual flaw in the "putover" -- as Serling called it on Twitter.

The assumption being that a MSW race on the Kentucky Derby card would come up tough.

The race came up so soft, that Masochistic was just 4/1 on the morning line and had the fastest last out fig on everyones numbers. Even his 69 Beyer was fastest last-out.

Had he caught a tough MSW race on Derby Day -- he wouldn't have won by 14 lengths going six furlongs, but he would have been a much better price.

It is amusing to see a maiden race go 1:08.85 and the Kentucky Derby go 2:03.66 ...on the same card.