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Originally Posted by BlueChip@DRF
Look to the morning-line favorite. 
They probably know anything below 1:10 will get fried at the top of the lane.
Ever since the points system, there has been a controlling pace but not blazing. I think the Palace Malice experiment was an aberration. |
And this is what bothers me most about a number of entries.
Many a horse, trainer, owner, jockey have obviously decided that they were no longer interested in winning the race and to get as high a board finish as possible.
A number of these are in theory are no chance type horses, but when they don't even give an effort to at least try and take a lead early in the race and see if their horse can't at least get bold and hang on just baffles me.
This year, I'll probably end up mad again when Promises Fulfilled, or Quip, or Flameaway, or Bravazo, or Noble Indy, or Free Drop Billy, or Firenze Fire, or really anybody that doesn't try and take it to Justify and Magnum Moon on the front end. Becasue those horses aren't passing those guys late, much less a number of others, while playing the same game of a solid amount of stalkers and closers that are better than them anyway.
