Re: pat day and azeri (370 Views)
Date: December 02, 2004 03:45PM
CTC,
I can't make a reasonably accurate pace figure for 10F at Lone Star, but I would say the pace was moderate/slow given how fast they came home and how fast the final time was.
I don't think anyone was beating Ghost or RIM that day even if the pace was a little faster (honest). They weren't killing themselves on the front end, but they weren't loose either. They did challenge each other at times.
Given an honest pace and less extreme ground loss by some of the other decent horses, I think the margins would have been a lot tighter.
I don't think Ghost is 8 lengths better than Perfect Drift, but I think Ghost is more than a neck better than St. Liam.