Dead rail on the turf?

I don't see one horse that ran in the top three in the turf races that didn't figure to handle a soft or yielding course. On the other hand, I threw out a few who figured to have a tough time with the yielding conditions. Especially Special Ring! I read an interview on Sportinglife.com (thank you Delmar Deb) with Michael Dickinson and he was emphatic that he thought Special Ring wanted very firm ground and I think the PP's made that pretty clear. He went off well above the M/L.

I think yielding turf hurts front runners big time as well, but this is another debate. In any case it looks like you could make the argument that the soft turf had more of an impact than any dead rail, and I am sure my opinion will have a huge influence on your decision.

My "trip" memories of these races are fading, but I'm pretty sure Film Maker ran on the inside and hung in there pretty well... I tabbed her trip as "against the bias" in the sense that she was one of the few grass entries that looked like she pressed/stalked the pace and was still there at the end (as opposed to the Turf where they chased down the loose leader SOTBay).

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