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Originally Posted by justindew
Maybe I need to watch the replay a few more times, but it seems to me that 99 times out of 100, when a horse the caliber of Street Sense passes another horse in the final 1/4 mile, the race is over. It looked to me like Street Sense quit. I don't know if "hung" is the right word.
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99 out of 100 is about right.
The horse was 8th after a 1/4 mile, 8th after a half mile, 7th after 3/4's (and always behind Curlin) He leaves him for dead on the far turn...and has a 1 1/2 length lead at the stretch call according to the chart....it was a much much more extreme case than the Tiznow/Sakhee example in the Breeders Cup Classic a few years back.
I sent Kiri's Clown a six hour tape of some great horse races from the last 20 years---he should have the tape by Monday or Tuesday---I added Street Cry's 2-year-old races with Flame Thrower....I couldn't find his UAE Derby loss.
I think you guys will notice a lot of similarites between SS and his sire, when you see them on Youtube.
In both of his losses to Flame Thrower, the speed figure came back giant, if not the fastest runnings of the Norfolk and Del Mar Futurity of all-time, they're certainly among the top two or three on figures.