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Originally Posted by senortout
There was not one horse in that race who could not have set those ridiculously slow fractions....witness Desormeaux setting the pace and holding on for third...what were they afraid of?
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I think they were afraid of Itsmyluckyday and Orb to some extent, but Desormeaux also knew his only chance at that class and distance was controlling an easy pace.
Desormeaux also brought Merit Man over pretty aggressively from the gate, and if Napravnik had broke more aggressively we may have seen a foul occur against the 8.