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Originally Posted by MisterB
Thanks, that helps make sence of it all. Any other words of wisdom?
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Yes---the track at Oaklawn Park that day was extremely inside-speed biased.
Flying First Class, who's bred to sprint, made a comfortable lead, and dismantled a field by many lengths. I believe the soundly beaten 2nd place finisher won back. His final time was almost two full seconds faster than alw horses later on in the card.
Basically, a combonation of taking advantage of a track bias, and running a giant race, equalled a very fast time over a racetrack that was yielding slow times all day long. Also, Flying First Class is a Wayne Lukas trained horse, and his horses have been notoriously inconsistant over the last several years...and often run a big race and fall off form.
If you look at High Heels, she was routed by a Lukas filly in her prep for the Fantasy...in the Fantasy, she won by a large margin over Cotton Blossom and Cash Included...the same Lukas filly who destroyed her in her previous start ran dismally on that day.
Hard Spun, who raced on the same card, was wide on both turns, and taken off the pace for the first time....thus meaning he ran against the track...as opposed to FFC...who ran with it.