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Originally Posted by zico20
God do I hope everyone thinks like you. Mage is not a true closer, he can easily be on the lead if the fractions are slow. He is going to keep getting better and better. His turn of foot reminds me of Sunday Silence! That move in the Florida Derby into fast fractions was something you rarely see. I can't believe more didn't pick up on it. Mage is much faster early than Two Phils, he just needs a decent break in the Preakness and it is on to the Belmont with a Triple Crown on the line.
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Looks like a lot of folks did think like me
Mage should have been way less than 7-5 vs that field...wonder why he wasn't.
Maybe a lot of people know that deep closing Derby winners tend to struggle at Pimlico, and now you do too.
He did pay $2.40 to show though
