Who Will Be The Pace Setter In The Derby?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by CSC

Memory had them running the 1/2 in 44 and change, when M. Wind, Keats(I think) and Balto Star cannot get within a sniff of the lead, that pace was doomed to collaspe regardless of the condition of the track.

Right but the thing is everyone labels the CD strip on Derby day as "souped-up" yet the amount of wire-to-wire winners of the Derby is shockingly small. Thus, what I'm telling you is that to make the blanket generalization that a souped-up track is speed-favoring is incorrect.

NT