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Originally Posted by letswastemoney
Was it slow? I don't understand how a nice horse like Conquest Typhoon runs that slow early and has no fight left.
Metaboss must have run excellent then.
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From Bloodhorse, video at the link
In a race devoid of speed, Indianaughty inherited the early lead along the inside as 40-1 outsider Ernest Shackleton and Conquest Typhoon ranged up on his outside. Those three dictated a leisurely tempo of :25.29, :49.25, and 1:13.98 before Conquest Typhoon, ridden by Mike Smith, took a narrow advantage in upper stretch. But the race turned into a cavalry charge leaving the far turn with as many as eight vying for position heading into stretch.
Reaching contention late on the outside was Metaboss, who had raced in eighth to the three-eighths pole before gathering steam on the final bend. As Metaboss rallied, Conquest Typhoon continued to lead past midstretch although weakening. Metaboss struck the front on the extreme outside near the sixteenth pole under urging from Solis and quickly drew off in the final drive for the wire.
"I just wanted to save some ground and be patient," Solis said. "He handled the track well. At the half-mile pole I asked him a little bit and he kicked on right away, so I grabbed him and said, 'whoa, whoa.' I said I was going to wait until I got to the five-sixteenths to ask him and that's what I did.
"He caught them quick. He kept opening up on them. He ran a mile and an eighth today; now we just need a mile and a quarter and we're in business."
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