It was competition (666 Views)
Posted by:
T Severini (IP Logged)
Date: August 30, 2015 04:31PM
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Coronado is wrong about AP's effort because he's comparing different fractional times at a different distance in a different age class? I thought that's what we do?
AP could run against olders, to this point he's just not been inclined to.
With the Whitney, you've got another card in the Saratoga summer surrounded by Turf races.
Historically, that 2:01:50 was a darn good Travers time. What did you think you were gonna get with an AP victory, 1:59:20?
It was a game effort. A.P was under real pressure and feelin the heat because the pressure was coming from the outside and looking him in the eye. In the Derby AP got his favored path. This time, he got the pressure applied to him and his peers are now a little stouter. I thought Frosted's jockey made a very good tactical decision.
Those were pretty good efforts by Frosted and Upstart too. Forget about the track speed. No one will figure that with precision upon either day.
AP ran his race. He wasn't off and it would be a false pretense to claim such as justification to not race again.