Lucy: "jerry used lion heart because he had given him very fast #'s for his last 2, I believe.
he blew those races --- they weren't that fast.
what happened was that lion heart was drastically off his peak form of earlier in the year, and many people spotted it."

Hey, look guys. Lion Heart broke his leg in the race. Now you might want to argue that he ran "too fast" in those last two races. But how can you use the breakdown to indicate that those prior figures were listed as higher than they should have been. Are you guys really saying that because he broke down, it means that the numbers in his prior races were wrong and that he wouldn't have been able to run that fast if he hadn't broken down? If so, I would like to hear how you arrive at that conclusion.