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It will take me longer to go thru the Saturday races, but a long time ago, one of the old guys told me that Grade 1 races are won by Grade 1 horses. For the most part that held true on Saturday as did the Euro invasion.
The Saturday races obviously were for mature horses so most of them had at least 9 races in the PPs. I marked for further scrutiny any horse that had won a G1 race anywhere in the PPs. In only the 11th race was the winner a horse that had not previously won a grade 1 race!
Odd note for Saturday of the nine races the winners came from the first three post positions in 7 of them. The 2 YO races did not conform to that.
Also the Euro winners on turf all had 4 or more races whereas the US contingent rarely had more than three races. I get the impression that the Euros start their good 2's earlier than here in the states.
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