I'll take a look at the other results this week.

I thought it was fairly obvious that everyone near the pace was severely compromised. Many of the other horses they sent out had serious question marks about distance or lacked ability/recent form.

IMO Bellamy Road and High Fly both ran fairly well considering their trips. Plus both had question marks coming in related to distance, pace, rateability etc...

I thought High Limit was probably more likely to finish last than first given this pace scenario and his being exposed in the BG (I thought he'd beat Spanish Chestnut and Going Wild).

Andromeda Hero was a very slow horse.

Coin Silver and Flower Ally were second stringers that haven't exactly looked like Stymie in the stretch of shorter races.

I liked Bandini, but he was so dreadful I can't believe juice had anyhing to do with his performance. He was just too horrible.

I liked Greely's Galaxy, but let's face it, he had only 4 lifetime starts, 2 route preps and he beat 3rd stringers when he ran fast. So he was highly vulnerable to a bad performance and I said so prior.

I'll check the rest of week's results like you suggest, but as bad as the drug problem is these days, IMO it would really be stretching things to blame this mess of a race on drug testing.

This is what happens in 20 horse fields when the pace is hot and you find out that a lot of horses don't want 10F or weren't seasoned enough for such a demanding race.

Logical people tear up tickets.



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