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Originally Posted by FGFan
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.
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True about the time - the Tiffany Lass was slow, but it turns out that the Risen Star was only about a tick slower than the Mineshaft.
What you say about the FG stretch makes sense, but DM will have to ration his speed the same way if he's to get the job done in the LA Derby. I have no problem with DM setting a slow/mild pace because it's not like he has to prove he's speedy. My concern is in the Derby, where he'd be cooked on the front end. That said, I wonder if Pletcher is dead set on DM as a front runner; the colt ran pretty well in the Belmont Futurity and in the Champagne coming from just off the pace.
I was definitely dead wrong about Tempted to Tapit (and gladly so, as I love Tapit). I don't know how good he is, but he's better than an Aqueduct-in-winter 3 year old.