Met Mile (Divine Park 109)

[philcski]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The final 1/4 in the Met Mile was 27.30 ...

The final 1/4 in the 7th race, a one mile pace at the Meadowlands harness track today was 27.80 and the horse who won that race was 40/1.

Makes you wonder how the great Lord Snowdon didn't win.

Is that final quarter time actually right?? Seems almost impossible to be correct. DRF still has it listed as 1:09.61, 1:36.91.

[the_fat_man]

It's correct. Here's the chart with the splits.

[JJP]

Outside of the Whitney, this was probably Commentator's best race. At least he wasn't facing NY breds or 40K claiming types. That said, this wasn't the strongest edition of the Met Mile.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by JJP

Outside of the Whitney, this was probably Commentator's best race. At least he wasn't facing NY breds or 40K claiming types. That said, this wasn't the strongest edition of the Met Mile.

I don't think this race was any better than his third in the Tom Fool last year.

[pick4]

I was foolish in failing to read through the pp's that First Defence would be going balls out from the gate. Commentator needed an easy first quarter and he did not get that today. I told a few people the race would be decided in the first two furlongs. 22.48 was not what the first quarter I anticpated. The second quarter which was run in 22.04 was too much for Commentator to sustain a strong stretch run.

Commentator ran his eye balls out and I think it's a great thing to see a 7 year old run a race like he did. At least a decent horse in Devine Park was the one who benefitted from the fast early fractions.

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

It's correct. Here's the chart with the splits.

Cool chart, to me looking at that the slowish third quarter really helped Divine Park get back into it, and then the complete crawl at home let him win.

[SniperSB23]

Second slowest running in the past 60 years.