* Brians Fancy (
http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?...=D&country=USA )
Brians Fancy, normally a forwardly placed horse and one without any prior history of gate problems, as you can see in the link above, he propped at the start of the 7th race at FG on Jan 21st.
We've seen much adieu about horses blowing the break by several lengths and winning ... however, that normally happens in meltdown races (+20's or more) where blowing the break can actually be an advantage.
This race was a -13 and Brians Fancy had no chance and was caught wide the entire way around the turn to boot.
* Iron Joe T (
http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?...=D&country=USA and
http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?...=D&country=USA )
Was involved in a breakaway pace war on Jan 20th at Golden Gate. That race was an unbelievable +46, so he was a great 6th that day.
In one of the more extreme cases of over-compensation you'll ever see, he was taken extremely wide and wrangled back to dead last in a MUCH slower paced route race next time out. He rallied to be in a photo for 2nd at 7.9/1 odds, he would have won with any kind of rational trip that day.