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Originally Posted by hockey2315
an extra furlong isn't nothing
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As far as I am concerned, this is just plain wrong.
There have been hundreds of talented 9f horses through the years who simply want no part of 10 furlungs. The difference in horses' performances going 9f and 10f is often enormous.
Will that be the case with Big Brown? We can't know that at this point, but saying he will have no problem with ten simply because he got nine with no problem is not accurate.
In this particular case, my opinion is that his pedigree is a bit ambiguous, and doesn't really tell us much about whether or not he might like the added distance.