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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The pace set up well for him and they did not come home fast on a track that seemed to be a tick or 2 fast. Not saying that he was fully cranked or trying to denigrate the horse but this was not some superior performance. It was a very good horse overcoming a bit of trouble while beating overmatched foes.
Feel free to blast me.
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No, I agree with you to a large extent....his performance will be overrated.
While beating a very overmatched field on paper, He got a tremendous setup pace-wise, saved all the ground on a day when the rail was arguably the place to be, and though he had all that trouble on the far turn---it was not like he had to run all that fast through the final furlong to win.
Thirty minutes later, in a race run at the same distance, a 108/1 shot 3yo, who never had run a Beyer higher than 72 in his career, pressed the pace the entire way, and stayed on to win. The final furlong of that race was run in marginally faster time than the final 1/8th of the Invasor race.
As far as the ride by Kent D. on A.P. Arrow, I've seen him do that to many times, to many odds-on favorites trying to come inside of him....