Zayat is Leaving; Baffert hates it

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Riot

Then what we need to validate that hypothesis is to post here the speed figures (let's take top four speed-rated horses in a race), and see how they perform over the poly routes with the results, compared to their non-poly route results.

Maybe someone with the time can do that.

No matter how painfully slow they make the early pace in those route races, the closers still seem to dominate....and the closers don't look like they are rallying....it's more like the "speed" horses run through the stretch as if a sniper in the grandstand hit them.