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Originally Posted by pic6vic
Below are the winning margins for Derbt day at CD. there were so many large margins ofvictory, that I believe the results are to be taken lighlty. There were 9 main track races and 6 had a margin of victory of 5 lenghts or better.
RACE WINNING MARGIN
1st 5
2nd 6 1/4
3rd 6 1/2
4th 6 3/4
5th TURF
6th 1 1/4
7th 3
8th TURF
9th " 3/4
10th TURF
11th 6 3/4
12th 6 1/4
13th TURF
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I made this point a couple of days ago in the thread entitled The Preakness...a sloppy track often yields plenty of wide margins, so MTB's "margin" in itself was not unusual.