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Originally Posted by mountainman
Watch races in which you have NO knowledge of the horses. This really underscores-extreme scenarios excepted-how many events become pure battles of attrition as seemingly beaten runners re-rally, pace-occupants running under wraps fold just several strides later, and dismissed runners muster one final surge.
Horse races are gut checks that find certain runners pushing on through extreme pain and fatigue (which often has ZERO to do with "reserve racing energy") while others give in. Gut checks sometimes determined by forces we can't explain, much less predict. Gut checks that defy lots of what we hold true (myself INCLUDED..in fact, we ALL focus on flow, both past and predicted) from a visual perspective.
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If you are asking me if I think some horses have a bigger heart for battle and are more determined to try to pass horses and not allow horses to get by etc.. I agree with that. I don't think it's a permanent quality. I think some of it depends on the quality of the competition and what the horse has in reserve, but I agree it goes beyond that.
It's all these little things we've been discussing that make me look at horses from a qualitative perspective also and not with just the numbers. These qualitative things are just sometimes harder to measure and be accurate about before the fact, especially with lightly raced horses.
