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Originally Posted by Cardus
If you want to read a memorable description of a race, find a copy of a special DRF publication -- distributed about five or six years ago, I think -- that printed the complete chart (with comments) of some of the Triple Crown winners' races. I know that this publication exists; I have it still, but not with me currently.
Usually, the chartmaker's comments are pedestrian, but not so for Secretariat's epic performance at Belmont Park. The last sentence of the description is unusual, if not unique, for a race chart.
If a techno savvy DTer has this publication and scanned this chart into this forum, you would understand what I mean. The comments are a neat footnote to the greatest Thoroughbred performance of all time.
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Back then I don't know if the DRF had the little abbreviated comment line at the far right of the performance line like they have now. If it was your job to boil down a performance like Secretariats Belmont into a few words to show up in the PP's what would you say? What could you say? "Much the best", "Drew off"? The typical stuff seems woefully inadequate.
I think I'd simply put "UNREAL!"