Rich Curtis Wrote:
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> " If Moreno got the early lead I don't think
> Bayern could pass him based on many previous
> races."
>
> What are the names of these "many previous races"
> that show that Bayern could not have passed
> Moreno?
Arkansas Derby -- Race Calls -- 1, 1, 1, 2, 3
Preakness -- 8, 7, 7, 7, 9
Travers -- 1, 1, 3, 10, 10
All other races -- 7 of 10 were virtually wire-to-wire. Twice he briefly dueled for the first race call (2nd by a head) and won but he didn't pass a horse and was not running against anything with early speed like Moreno ($1.8 million won including a Grade 1 and multiple other Graded stakes races).
Coincidences do occur in life and maybe it is a coincidence that the same trainer (Baffert) trained a horse that happened to impede with the same horse (Shared Belief) in back-to-back races that were both Grade 1 races at the same track (Santa Anita). I don't happen to buy it. My last words on this unfortunate subject.
