If I'm not mistaken the Carter was the Fourth race under Dutrow:

Graveshead
Paoumonok
General George
Carter

Don Six did not approach track record speed in the other 3 despite running a negative 4.1 in the Paumonok. My point being the track on Wood Day was blistering by the 8th, 9th and probably 10th races. Signicantly two other horses matched the track record for 6 marks in the Carter. What this demonstrates to me is that the Wood field utterly collapsed. Survivalist ran a 1.50.66 which is not a bad time most days. Wood day it was abysmal.

The problem with Wood Day in my opinion is that the other races lacked quality with the exception of Foggy's race. He did run a 1.21.1 change is my recollection. But i'm not altogether sure it was his best race. I think he may have regressed in it.

I think Bellamy ran a very good Wood and is a horse to be feared. He may have run a negative 5. But I could see it being a negative 1 too. Maybe its somewhere in between. Silver Charm thinks its a Negative 10, so its a matter of perspective until May 7th.

I have to admit to one significant oversight in my previous post. I was comparing the main to the inner and you can't do that. I lost track of the shift from the inner. Still I think theres some merit to the track speed review. The innertube track record is 1.07.4, Don Six ran to within a second of it.



Post Edited (05-02-05 09:39)