Re: Pickle The Dosage (405 Views)

Materiality wasn't a complete illusion into that slow last quarter. At the 1 Mile mark, he was back 14 lengths and was beaten at the wire by 7 1/2 lengths so there was a 6 1/2 length gain on the leader. I think Materiality got the last quarter in about 25.4, not flying, but not an illusion either.
Even Keen Ice, who was behind a total wall of horses with no place to go, and eventually just bulled his way through Itsaknockout and Far Right with an angled splitting of tired horses managed in the last eighth to go from 14 1/2 lengths back to be beaten 8 1/2 lengths on the wire, that's still 6 lengths into that slow last quarter.
Looked to me like 12 really poor performances from the field, including some that were expected to have their doors blown off, and then the really major disappointment of Carpe Diem and Upstart, and less major disappointment of Bolo, and of course the accompanying trouble by Materiality.
The two that ran well, even if the final number doesn't show it are Danzig Moon and Keen Ice and you'd have needed a search warrant to find them after the top placement horses.