Here's Rombauer's Blue Grass. Essential Quality runs wide and wins wearing down a horse that based on the day's card was making relatively easy fractions. It wasn't easy for Essentially Quality to do all the work reining in the front runner. Essential Quality had the crops best numbers until the Preakness. Note the bit of trouble Rombauer had at the break...how he appears outrun, but then saving ground on the final turn regains what he's lost. Do you detect a slight bear in towards the rail about mid homestretch? He's beat pretty good, but its not a bad race vs the current crop leader and then note his post race gallop out. When he came out dancing, he appeared to be sitting on a good one. Figure wise he was on a Forge.
Blue Grass Stakes