Mind that Bird last race before the derby

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by gales0678

Did anyone take a second look at his PP's?

Look at the splits from his last race at a 1 1/8

45.32 and 1:10.12 - if i am correct these are the best splits of any 1 1/8 race for any of the derby contenders

is it odd for his beyer to be lower in this race than his previous race ? look at the splits from 2 races back at 1 1/16

i gotta think the race on the 29th s.b looked at again by the beyer boys no?

MTB had the best 1st and 2nd call times going into the derby and it was his most recent race

[slotdirt]

Originally Posted by gales0678

MTB had the best 1st and 2nd call times going into the derby and it was his most recent race

So?

[slotdirt]

Stop trying to look in the PP's for an explanation for Saturday. There just isn't one. The horse ran the last half of that race with nearly Secretariat-like speed. It is horse racing. Crap happens.

[herkhorse]

I don't know what's worse, abbreviating horses names or just spelling them wrong altogether.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Stop trying to look in the PP's for an explanation for Saturday. There just isn't one. The horse ran the last half of that race with nearly Secretariat-like speed. It is horse racing. Crap happens.

but he didn't ran at all in the beginning , do you know the splits from sat?

he ran the 6f in 1:10 and change in the race before , so there was some ability that maybe was overlooked

[slotdirt]

I see that the horse ran 6f in change the race before, a race that went its final 3/8ths in 40-ish seconds while your boy Mine that Bird completely faded from contention. How does that correlate with the horse coming home in 47-ish seconds in a 10f race next out? It doesn't.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

I see that the horse ran 6f in change the race before, a race that went its final 3/8ths in 40-ish seconds while your boy Mine that Bird completely faded from contention. How does that correlate with the horse coming home in 47-ish seconds in a 10f race next out? It doesn't.

do you have the splits from the derby , he obviously didn't raun at all in the first 3 -4 f , borel took him back , what was his time for the last 6f in the derby surely somebody must have the splits no?


all i'm saying is that his race was better than it looked , how much better , whose to say , but, maybe just maybe he got more out of that race than people want to give him credit for , bumping the horses and taking back in the derby may have been a godsend cuse it allowed borel to conserve in the early part of the race and then unleash during the 2nd half of the race

[slotdirt]

I think officially the horse's internal fractions for the last half of the Derby were 47 and 1/5. That is faster than just about anybody not named Secretariat has run the last 4f of a Derby in at least as far back as I've looked.