Great post Fairmount and I'm in agreement. I don't think the 9 for Strike Rich's last race was fair either. He closed well into a slow paced poly race and IMO, that was a move forward in my book which made him live for another move forward. I'm not red-boarding, he was still too slow for me to use him any which way, but where most of the field ran very inefficient fractions, the hyper fast pace definitely gave him a chance. Slow the first two quarter miles down by 1/5th second each and Rich Strike misses the board and we're having a different discussion. Rich Strike went out in :49, came home in :50. He didn't hit any turbo button. He was the classic sustained closer into a wipeout pace.