Did Mario Pino cause Hard Spuns loss??

[MisterB]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

even with your different subject, my answer is the same, no. Mario did not play any role in Hard Spuns bad performance because it wasn't a bad performance. It was a bad performance only in terms of the overblown expectations that existed before the race.

By any objective measure that I have looked at the performance was nearly the same as the last one.

What is it that makes you say that this is a wrong opinion? You said you don't rely on Beyers? Do you use other figures? How do you know it was a bad performance?

HS tripped a 101 speed fig in the Bris, no one close has done that, so yes, overall speed figs, not Beyer figs. The horse that won was the worst horse in the numbers games. If your horse is a runner, and not a rater, you don't try to rate your horse, it's a disaster in the making. This horse got off a step slow, and did not try to grab the rail with his speed. His 2 turn win at K, was sizzle time, not rate time.