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Most people are going to be impressed by the way he overcame the bad break and ground loss. IMO, that was NOT the most impressive part of his victory (though that break was clearly a semi disaster). Today the track was not playing the way Meydan normally plays. Today, it was playing to that wide late move that he got all day long.
IMHO, what makes this horse so amazing and different from just about any horse I have ever seen is that after that sustained run, he looked nowhere near the bottom of his stamina. If he was asked to more earlier, IMO he would have done it and kept going at the same clip late. He just doesn't get tired. It's amazing. To have as much tactical speed as he has (as we've seen in previous races) and to never get tired is kind of unheard of. Some of the other great ones had more speed, but not with this much stamina to go with it.
IMO Gun Runner also ran a big race after being up there all the way, hanging tough, and drawing off from the rest of the horses. He deserves a nod for that effort against a special horse.
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Last edited by classhandicapper; 03-25-2017 at 01:30 PM.
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