The track was unbelievably slow, the time of the BG was unbelievably fast considering that. In the first, FM 10 claimers ran the mile in 1:44.38 en route to a 1:51.59 Mile and Sixteenth. In the third, very good older horses (a 25k starter race) ran a final time 2 full seconds slower than the BG, and the winner of that race won by 11 lengths-- the rest of them ran much slower. By the sixth the track was a lot faster, but allowance horses still took 1:46.01 for 1 1/16th. And all these horses were carrying much less weight than the horses in the BG.

The only thing you could possibly do with that race is make it faster. But the figure is solid. And by the way, since Ragozin has the race the same, and doesn't slide days without weather changes, how bad do you think he had those other horses running?



TGJB