Briefly, because it's a little busy around here...

Leaving aside the other issues:

1-- That wasn't the only race on the day. While I am not averse to pulling races loose when necessary, it should be obvious I'm not going to do it to give two horses the best figures in history. In this case the day was really simple, and solid as a rock, with virtually no change in speed, the winner paired his number, no one in the race other than St. Liam ran unusually fast, and the previous dirt race was another 1 1/8th race, the Gazelle, which also looked fine. If you don't use weight and ground you will come up otherwise (as did Beyer), but if you do, this one was simple, and rock solid. I make 20 tougher variant decisions than this a day.

2-- Remember the promos, "this is your brain, and this is your brain on drugs"? This is St. Liam...



TGJB