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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
I haven't had time to watch all the replays yet, but he was beat out of the gate by Brilliant Speed and they crossed and cleared on him.
Maybe he didn't have a visual excuse at the start, but he clearly did not perform well in the first few strides and he got crossed and cleared on because of it, in a race where NO ONE else wanted any part of the lead. Smith had Mucho Macho Man under a hamerlock down the backstretch.
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He got checked going into the first turn and never looked comfortable after that, but the actual break was clean, unlike Shackleford's.
Tapizar was an underlay at 15-1 to me. I'd love to hear McLaughlin start answering for why his horses run so disparately in and out of NY.