Three back was the top 6, two back was the 11, and his last race before Saturday was the 8.
The reason I liked Vicarion so much was that his most recent race, a 5, came attempting to close at 7 furlongs, 3 wide the whole race, very much against the bias. I thought 4 weeks rest was enough to overcome the effort, and with the trip he was getting (before he bolted!), I thought he was going to run off the screen, which he ended up doing at the turn. The 1a's debut race was a 12 or 13, which means he needed to jump up big time, or others would have had to regress (which happened, I don't know).
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