This is exactly why I like the Tin Man types. You rest on your arse (50 sec at 4 f????) and you get beat. He will not allow what appears to be a huge rush at the end if let loose on soft fractions.

These are not European fairways, these are American courses with turns. And some of the Euros experience a great deal of difficulty with turns as it takes a tremendous amount of energy out of a horse because a horse ACCELERATES (a change in speed, direction or both) on turns... yes thats right, it requires more energy to constantly change directions on turns than it takes running straight ahead. I think this is vastly overlooked. ANd I think it is why some of Europes best do not come here. They are at a big disadvantage. Yes they go up and they go down but the majority of those courses are very gentle turns. ON some US turf courses up to 40% of the time spent racing is turning on a very small effective radius compared to Euro courses... and that is very, very hard on a horse.

The Euros that come over here and whup our butts should be given the highest reguard as they really have shown incredible athletic ability winning on such diff type courses. Also turning in a diff. direction, which has been discussed many times.