Pat will like this one...just did some rough work ... thinking of writing an article on it for TimeformUS. In the Juvenile, I these were the pace figures I have for the 3/4 mile and the finish for the top 3, 0-100 scale:
Code:
Havana 82 72
Strong Mandate 84 71
New Year's Day 76 73
But when you add in ground loss, they look like this:
Code:
Havana 91 81
Strong Mandate 93 79
New Year's Day 81 79
Pretty tough to argue the winner was anything better than 3rd best (not that you needed numbers to see that, but this will be part of the future)