Re: Derby views from a Ragozin user (608 Views)
Posted by:
fkach (IP Logged)
Date: April 30, 2007 03:44PM
In these very slow paced races I tend to seperate the horses based on how they finished "relative to each other" because the speed figure almost can't be representative for some of the horses. By that standard, horses like Dominican and Street Sense look terrific and Teuflesberg looks terrible even though they all finished fairly close together. Great Hunter also looks OK if you assume he would have finished in the photo. Even Zanjero doesn't look too bad. He saved ground relative to the others, but you have to wonder how much that ground loss took out of the other horses considering they were all walking around the track. It's possible that only the ground loss in the latter part of the second turn really mattered much because everyone was still fresh and they were all flying. Losing ground at that point almost certainly was a disadvantage.