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Originally Posted by Betsy
Ok, I suppose I need to admit that I was wrong - sort of. There is no way this horse goes 1 1/4 - I can't see him getting 1 1/8 well either. The final time was slow and no one did anything behind him - I would rather see DM kept sprinting, especially since Todd's A horse won the FOY so impressively.
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Originally Posted by Betsy
You think this horse really wants to route? In looking at the race again, he ran fine.....he did spurt away from his rivals when he needed to. However, I didn't think he ran like he definitely wanted more ground. I will admit that the FG stretch is not conducive to front runners, though from what I've read, the track was speed favoring today. In any case, with his running style, DM will get fried in the Derby.
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The times were not slow they were quite average as Bid said it was a mild pace but not slow. I don't like to see them go to fast in this race another one is yet to come in 4 weeks.
And front runners can do quite well on the FG stretch as long as they have not spent themselves just trying to get there and are not in immeninent danger of stopping. A horse that wants to stretch out will relish the FG stretch. And of course the FG stretch has enough ground to favor a deep closer.
I think Tempted toTapit and Discreetly Mine both ran nice races in preps for what is coming up, nice lessons learned from today.