Re: Race of the week (652 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: July 27, 2015 02:56PM
I have used the term lone speed often in write-ups, usually followed by the words "save ground".
This gets into semantics, but my view is that it's an advantage because it's a disadvantage for closers for reasons I mentioned, not because the horse in front runs any better (and as with Feathered, there are a million examples of ones that don't. But the closers who drew outside in that race were screwed the way the race was run-- their figures will be better than their results. Which is when we give out "buried" marks ("!").