Re: Preakness......rubber meets the road (539 Views)
Posted by:
fkach (IP Logged)
Date: May 11, 2007 02:58PM
>In Jerry's mind he did.
If Solis had only saved ground.<
The advantage of having more speed and saving ground is often offset by being used harder early to get better position.
The advantage of relaxing early is often offset by ground loss and other trouble.
I don't see how you can evaluate horses without looking at both.
In any event, IMO, a review of the races at Belmont on that June day would leave little doubt to any unbiased observer that EG had the best of it on that track the way it was playing. Horses were making huge wide sweeping moves all day long (even more often than usual for Belmont in those days). To me, it was pretty clear that SS was the better horse no matter what the figures said or what happened at 12F on EG's "rigged" biased home track. ;-)