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Originally Posted by Dahoss9698
You don't think the only other horse with any early speed scratching out altered the way the race played out? How could it not?
The 6 scratching allowed Rapid Redux an uncontested lead. Most horses are going to run better uncontested, instead of having a hopeless longshot lapped to their outside.
You can't take away his consistency. But the behind the scenes stuff is unfortunate.
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In that 5000N2L win last out, William's Prayer was positioned behind the early leaders for the first 6f. Hard for me to believe that he would be matching strides early today with a much faster and classier competitor than anything he faced last time. The horse is cheap and his demonstrated early sprint speed is nothing like RR's. I think it's unlikely that scratching the #6 impacted the race.
