Horses are often given an unimpressive "breather" after a hard-fought race or two...especially at the smaller tracks. There is also the amusing scenario where horses sometimes alternate their good and bad efforts, and the proof is there in black-and-white...for those who bother to notice the patterns that these horses (and their handlers) sometimes fall into. If a particular horse has the habit of running good races right after bad ones...then it would be quite foolish to take this horse's last race as "gospel".
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