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Originally Posted by soonboomer
True distance breeding is a thing of the past in American racing. That's one reason the classics, when run at an honest pace, become a stagger fest coming down the stretch. One reason favorites have won 5 straight is that the best horses at a mile and an eighth are now always the best horses at a mile and a quarter. They went 53 and change the last half and 26 and change the last quarter off an honest pace, and nothing could come close to running Always Dreaming down. It wasn't always this way.
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Agree.
In addition, I think we are going to see more and more fresh, lightly raced horses displacing the horses that ran in Stakes races as two-year-olds. Hopefully, most handicappers will not make the necessary adjustments.
