Post Positions

[toetoe]

I love Starcraft and Saint Liam, but are they no-hopers with those outside posts? Won't they have to be miles best to win from there?

[how cliche]

The 3 winning posts for the classic in '90, '95, and '01 were 14, 10, and 10 respectively. Unbridled was 4th choice, Cigar was a favorite, Tiznow was 3rd choice. Perhaps the outside is not so bad in that one.

[toetoe]

Wow, that makes it seem that outside is better.

[DrugSalvastore]

Wow, that makes it seem that outside is better.

Aptitude burned up a lot of money from post 12 the year Tiznow won at Belmont.

And, the year Unbridled won from stall #14---Ibn Bay ran 2nd to him at 38-to-1 odds from post two, and Thirty Six Red finished 3rd at 29-to-1 odds from post position 3.

I don't think the post is as big a deal as some may think it is in the Classic, but, I think an inside-to-middle draw would be favored over an outside post.

Let's not kid ourselves to much---Unbrideld, Cigar, and Tiznow would probably have won from any post. All three of them were excellent horses.

[kev]

Cigar was much the best over those horses and Unbridled saved all the ground on the 2nd turn. Tiznow wow, he was 5W and 5W.

[DrugSalvastore]

Tiznow wow, he was 5W and 5W.

Yes....but, in all fairness, the outside paths were obviously preferred on BC Day 2001 at Belmont.

I won't go as far as to say it was a Dead rail day, like Watchmaker and many others have said, but it was crystal clear that the rail wasn't exactly where you wanted to be on that day.

[Rockingham]

http://www.drfonline.com/bc/2005/fields.html

[Rockingham]

100-1 m/l?
http://www.drfonline.com/bc/2005/fields.html