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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
The difference with those other frontrunners that held on (Indian Blessing, War Pass, Gotcha Gold, Hard Spun) was that they had things their own way in the early part of the race. Hystericalady broke from the outside post, dueled throughout, and still held sway. If it was solely the track that kept her going the whole time, and not her talent, then I wonder why other seemingly outclassed horses like Hard Spun and Gotcha Gold didn't make much more noise at the finish with more favorablel setups than their rather modest distant 2nd place finishes.
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i agree with this and don't claim it was solely the track, but I'm still suspicious of the outcome.
Hard Spun made about as much noise as one could expect, look at how he demolished Street Sense. What made Hard Spun suddenly become this beast that could run 10 furlongs and laugh at Street Sense?
Why wasn't Pyro able to close into those insane fractions and threaten War Pass like he did in the Champagne? As we now know War Pass had distance limitations which certanly weren't evident that day. An example is the Wood where War Pass again ran insane fractions but slowed to a crawl which allowed a horse less talented than Pyro to get by him.