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Originally Posted by avance2000
does o'neil own either horse? maybe he does, but if he doesn't why would he care one way or the other about breeding value.
i just watched all the races again....and i can see what brian and sniper are saying....but the horses along the rail really seemed to explode turning for home....maybe they really were just the best horses. hard to know for sure.
i think it looked like there was a bias.....but i suppose we can't really know for sure. you guys might be right.
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The sad thing is in modern day horse racing one of the main roles of the trainer is to increase the breeding value of his top horses for the owners.
Thor's Echo's explosion was while he was 3 wide. Dreaming of Anna's race was similar to The Tin Man in the Arlington Million, set soft fractions and was able to explode away at the end. Street Sense is the only race where I thought you could argue there was a big rail bias and even in that one if you account for the ground saved by closing up the rail compared to CQ or GH that accounts for a portion of the margin of victory. Besides SS had never got a dream trip before so we really have no clue how good he might be.