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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Didn't Elysium Fields settle and relax just fine last time?
As for the numbers, all I have is this year. So far this year, posts 11 and 12 are 0 for 8. Interesting though is posts 6-12 are 2 for 79 this season. Of those races, posts 6 and 7 had one victory each. So for the season posts 8-12 are 0 for 36.
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I thought he really had to muscle his way into position early, and never really relaxed as much as you would like. Kind of wanted to keep making headway all the way around to the lead. He has the excuse of the outside post, &he relaxed pretty well for being asked early, but the derby is going to throw the same kind of pressure at him or worse. I'd like to see even more patience here.
The stats are big. and they make sense. you get 11 seconds run up from the gate to the turn. You don't have time to swing behind, and you can't clear. You pretty much have to get forwardly placed,take a little contact and be happy with about 5 wide.
Big Brown fits those requirements, but we've only seen 2 races. He may be great he may be good , he may be too fragile.
How much does that little burst and being 5 wide cost a Big Brown in terms of lengths when compared with his rivals? 5 lengths? 8 lengths?