I have not been paying attention to times today, but the Wood (1:48.15) was historically fast, only about 10% of the editions have gone faster. By contrast, the SA Derby was and UAE Derby were pretty slow. The SA Derby went 1:49.56 - about 4/5 of all SA Derbies run were faster. The UAE Derby was 1:59.13 - they have run this distance 15 times and this is the 12th fastest, so not very fast on the clock at least. Of course, raw times often mean little, but I was surprised how slow the SA derby was relatively thinking.