Just finished with this day, and it was very tricky. It rained the night and morning before racing, they sealed the track with water in it at 10:00 AM, opened it again at 11:30 (which is a lot better than if they had it sealed for some races and opened it up for others, as they did for the 00 Wood, Chilukki debut at CD, etc.), and it was drying throughout the day (listed good for first 5, fast afterward).

Anyway, those 1-5 were sprints, 6-12 were routes with the exception of the Swale, and the variant for the routes got gradually slower. The card featured rained off grass races, small fields, a number of horses (some normally grass horses trying dirt) running x's, and other lightly raced horses exploding, making things very tricky, and the Florida Derby came at a point in the card where the track for the previous and following races was almost 4 points different. Bottom line, there were two ways to do the race. I don't intend to give out numbers on a regular basis, but the way I chose, which is slightly more likely, gave EM a 0 1/4, while the other would have given him a couple of points better. There is no chance the race went any worse. I gave Frankel's other horse a couple of points better.



TGJB