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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
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I don't find much fault with a lot of what was said there. Anytime you need to hook Bob to finish him off at the quarter pole then you usually need to be looking over your shoulder because something is probably coming. He may even enter Rockefeller too which could potentially bring flexibility in setting up roadblocks. Anytime we take a low price going against Bob in big races we probably need to question whether we've overestimated our chances a bit IMO. He's 'right' much more than I've been over the years. Even if you believe the champagne number those one-turn miles are really different anyway, Easy Goers giant Gotham and who else was it, Grand Slam? Different dynamics altogether. It doesn't mean there isn't talent evident but it's a whole different ballgame to repeat the number at two turns. You've put fatigue into that lead earlier in the race on the clubhouse turn to secure position and then you need to go back to it on the far turn, often in a really big way, that makes it different.
