How good is Big Brown?

[philcski]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

I posted this elsewhere, I'll do it here. The track was "suped" before the Fla Derby, not after:

Big Brown probably ran low 100s again, and the rest just stunk.

The raw figures for the three 9f races, pace and speed (projection):

R9: 92, 89 (I project this one as about a 98, so the track would be 9 slow)
R10: 128, 120 (I project this one as about 105, so suddenly the track is 15 fast?)
R12: 128, 123 (project at 110, so 13 fast)

Nice job by the super.

I think it's fair to give Big Brown some improvement, so call it 107, and that gives Smooth Air a very plausible high 90's (96-98). Don't know what to think of that last race of the day. Seems unbelievably fast. Very difficult to make figures, like old school GP.

Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

Do you really believe the shiat you are peddling?

FP he's not peddling shiat, he's dead on accurate here.

Originally Posted by The Bid

The South American is a crow, someone has to run third.

I love it when you call horses crows, I laugh every time You're right though, someone had to run 3rd, and he probably ran about the same as he did in Peru here, a mid 80's Beyer.