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Jun 8 15 7:38 PM

tomg wrote:
didn't think beyer was overly harsh - 226 and 2/5 is not something to go crazy over on a track playing that fast - macho tommy and wedding ring both closer to the track records than ap - by no means am I knocking the horse - he's a deserving tc winner and I love to watch him run - his feet stay on the ground less time than any other horse I've ever seen - I think he could beat affirmed but not slew.

Tommy, it isn't always about the time, it is how the time was achieved... look at these numbers:

       24.06          48.83      1:13.41       1:37.99       2:02.33      2:26.65
Fractions: 24.77        24.58         24.58           24.34          24.32

This shows how AP really devoured the field... he started well and never let up running fractions in almost perfectly symmetrical times, and they said he couldn't go 1-1/2 miles. Please note the last 1/2 mile was faster than the first half mile.


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