I recommend all of you look at this race ... Richie mentioned it to me in passing and was excited about it... i was at work (shhhh) and decided to go over the race ... it was a truly phenominal race where you could have got the high odds winners via ez pace analysis - IF IF IF you thought this horse who was coming from wayyyyyyyy back could actully win. That was the 8.
The only one of the earlies (IMO) that could hold on and had shown he could come off the pace was the 2. The top 3 finishers were something like 7 6 8 at the 3/4 pole of the 8F race. The winner was almost 13 lengths back at that spot. To me I love these races. There were so many early horses that finished 4-5-6-7-8.
If you ran this thru SPEC - it had 8-2 close but in that order and the 6-7 next. So now verification. WoW
This was like a 140 perfecta and over 1K trifecta.
The only scary part to me (and it was considerable) was the 22 lengths behind at the 2C. Those don't win very often... can u say Haley's Comet...
Well I was very happy for Richie .... he will be warm this winter... and I was just enjoying how all this came together.
THe one other fun part was that the 8 won by a Head and the 2 was ahead of the 3rd horse by a head.
I think the 5 which had a horrible 3rd fraction lost around 20 lenths in the 3F.
