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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I'm not a Tomlinson guy ... but QR is a big horse who certainly has outrun his pedigree.
His sire was a speed sprinter and his dam would stop to an absolute walk after running five furlongs.
Even though the numbers say Elusive Quality offspring are much better sprinting - he does somehow have a Kentucky Derby winner in Smarty Jones and a Breeders Cup Classic winner in Raven's Pass.
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Yeah Tomlinson's are useless half the time IMO, I'm not sure how the stats are compiled but would a horse that is able to route at a lesser track count as the same at a higher quality track when compiling the numbers. Same for the turf and slop numbers...Horses outperforming their breeding is an interesting topic, if I am not mistaken wasn't Holy Bull a freak, by Great Above who was only a modest sire. Surely there was no indication he would turn out to be the horse he was.