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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up
he may well get better with distance but compared to say Afleet Alex a couple years back I dont think this was anything special.
readys image came home in 13 3/5ths! just about any stake horse is going to get run down sprinting in that case. The winner may well be a good horse as time and distance increase as he flew home but the bottom line is he would have been a suck up second had readys image not come to a crawl.
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I think it's tough to say Afleet Alex's 2004 performance was much better than Majestic Warrior's, unless you want to chalk it up to how green AA was in the stretch.
The bottom line is that while Ready's Image was clear at the eighth pole, Majestic Warrior blew right by him. They went the 7/8ths in an identical time to older horses earlier on the card and the 2YOs did it with a slower pace.
In my opinion, it was an excellent performance from a horse who looks like he will be very comfortable with the mile of the Champagne and mile and a sixteenth of the BC Juvenile.
The Beyer number, by the way, was 95.
NT