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Originally Posted by philcski
Nah, he actually ACCELERATED after setting a pretty wicked pace going a mile and a sixteenth in his debut. I could certainly be wrong but he's finished with energy both times...
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Here's a comparison, by splits, to the Weekend Madness (R7), run the same day and won by Classic Neel.
Big Brown R5: 23.19 24.35 24.30
22.62 5.87
R7: 23.28
21.98 23.92 24.37 6.53
While he dropped the field when he accelerated, it's interesting that he didn't completely wipe them out, and some actually came back a bit (relatively) the last 1/16th. Of course, the maiden field was probably better than that he faced yesterday. But I think he was more impressive yesterday.