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Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer
This Ones For Phil was in good shape - until he ran a 21.72 second quarter 
I bet TOFP and Theregoesjojo to win. SamePage and Quality Road and maybe even Taqarub were supposed to duel on a 21.72 1st quarter with Prado carefully keeping TOFP out of the pace duel,
but the rest is history...
Quality Road ran back to his debut race. He's a nice horse, he's better than War Pass was at this time last year, and Quality Road can actually press as well as lead.
Lets be honest - this was a good field, but it's not really what its hyped up to be as " One of the Best Derby Preps in ages...". Most of these horses aren't classic distance horses. It was a nice field of sprinters and milers coming together with a lot of big figures.
Maybe if you get some of the sprinters out of the way it could help a horse like Quality Road even more in the Florida Derby he gets to relax up front.
They ran all ran pretty well to form - the race tactics and pace scenario just didn't materialize the way you would expect. |
I didn't get that...I'm more interested in the Gotham than I was of this race.
Solid race from Quality Road though.