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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Those other 9 races weren't 10 furlong races with 45 second half miles and 1:35 and change miles.
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Six of the 10 races featured relatively normal paces, two had fast paces and two had relatively slow paces. So on the whole, a normal set of races and yet the results were very different from normal. There was a very obvious and easily definable trip for success all day long: a little off of the pace but not very far away, staying off of the rail and moving outside of the early leader somewhere on the turn. Sound like Nyquist? I said that he ran well, I'm just not willing to hype the pace aspect given that his position was nearly ideal for how the track was playing.
The Pat Day Mile was the other race that featured a fast pace. It was also the only other race where a horse from the back half hit the exacta, but as with the Derby that closer never threatened the winner who was near the lead early, moved up outside the frontrunner to take the lead on the turn and won by 2.5 lengths despite being within a length of the hot early fractions.
