Re: rebreak...please explain (831 Views)
Posted by:
alm (IP Logged)
Date: April 30, 2003 01:05AM
Someone on this tree said that a rebreak is a sign of a good competitive horse and that is correct.
To understand it in visual terms look closely at a horse who has been on the pace or pressing it, who reaches the head of the lane in company, and actually appears to accelerate as if he just left the gate. He separates himself from his company just at that point and seems to draw off. He is actually just slowing down but more slowly than the others.
Most every horse runs slower in the final furlong of a race than in the first...closers are usually just optical illusions...they are horses who are slowing down less at the end of a race.
There have got to be a thousand of you out there who can name the one horse who won a Classic race while running each successive quarter mile faster than his previous quarter. I believe that this phenomenon has only been recorded once.
If this was true, he was the greatest American horse of all time.
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