How frustrating

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Teammate ran great. That pace was pretty quick too. If she would have been another 2-3 lengths further back, she might have been able to hold off Pine Island. As it was she tried to fight back, but she didn't have quite enough left after being a little too close to that failry hot pace. If Bushfire was not in the race, Teammate would have had an easy lead in :47 3/5 or so. I think she would have had a good chance of holding off Pine Island.

Exactly. Its all about the field. Pine Island benifitted greatly having Bushfire and Teammate running tough fractions. Without Bushfire, who knows.