AQU: Fri/Sat Stakes

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

But why would that scenario be 'fair' and the one where Daaher controls the pace (though he actually did quite a bit of running to do so ---take a look at the start and the run to the 1st quarter) and buries ML NOT 'fair'?

Dude - he ran almost identical fractions to a 2yo maiden who payed $26 to win and pasted the field in wire-to-wire fashion - while the 6/1 shot who pressed him stayed on for 3rd.

Dahher was not kept even slightly honest in that race. He had a 2.5 length lead after a half mile through a crawl - while ML was rank.

By fairly run race - I basically mean an average Grade 1 pace in a field of atleast seven or eight horses - where there is at least one other horse with a hint of early speed.