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[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Blackthroatedwind, I'm curious as to how you assessed the track yesterday in regards to the bias. I can certainly buy that the rail was incredibly kind to horses going into the stretch but I have a tough time believing that the rail was golden in the stretch when the horse that opened the most ground in the stretch was Curlin who was nowhere near the rail. Did we see an otherworldly performance by Curlin or was the bias not as pronounced as people are making it out to be?

I don't think it was a gold rail, or even really close, but I suppose it was probably the best path and that is reasonably validated by some earlier results. However, I don't think the rail skewed the results particularly. I will say that making up considerable ground wasn't easy, however in a race like the feature, with a $10K claimer setting the pace, it is impossible for the speeds to hold.