This is what makes the game interesting. I haven't watched the race but looking at the chart, the race is 'complicated', with multiple moves, and JD made the last one. Given the way the race played out, breaking badly probably didn't cost her much at all.
There are 2 interpretations, if we must take a speed oriented approach:
1) JD ran a monster trip as she closed into 'slow' fractions
2) The rest of the field was pitiful as they all fell apart in slow fractions.
But even if we assume 1, some of 2 comes with it. And, once again, from a speed oriented stance, it makes no sense that horses would collapse in slow fractions. I mean, that would be almost like admitting that races are determined by what happens internally, the shape, the moves, etc., rather than how fast they're going. We wouldn't want that.
This is why I love POLY. The charts are more complicated, like turf races, and they make less 'sense' than your typical dirt race.
P.S.
I think Hatta Fort's race was more impressive, given that he had to do all the work to close, rather than having multiple moves ahead of him.
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