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Originally Posted by mikesal57
"do something it has never done before"
Lets look at the chart....
this horse usually runs a 22.4 qtr for his better races
in this race he did just that...2 horse went out to a 22.3 qtr and he did his usual 22.4 being 1 lts behind....so the other 2 duel ran them selves out of the race and he inherit the lead...i doubt he do anything like this again in the future.
So was it a drop in class made him win?
Horses cant read the PP's!!
mike
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I agree that horses can’t read PP’s, neither do they have a dashboard with an odometer that tells them how fast they are running.
Be they horses in “the wild” or on a racetrack, horses inherently have a “herd” mentality that is just a part of the breed. They are most comfortable at either the front of the herd, the middle of the herd or at the back of the herd and they inherently seek out the position where they are most comfortable. This is the reason that a front runner will “bust a gut”, so to speak, in an effort to make the lead regardless of the time it takes for them to get there. Obviously, some horses are just faster than others and those who can’t keep up fall by the way side.
Since horses can’t read PP’s or “see how fast they are running using an odometer”, the only way they know where they fit in a race is based on the horses they are running against. It is no different than any human athlete, that when confronted with a competitor of superior skill, very quickly become aware of its’ opponents superiority.
In the race in question here, this horse quickly realized that the competition it was facing was clearly not as good as what it had been facing in its’ previous five races. Therefore, this horse assumed a position it
had never been in before, 3rd two lengths behind at the first call, and from there,
did something it had never done before, make up ground at each call from the first call to the finish.
So was it class that made it win? ABSOLUTELY AND WITHOUT QUESTION!
If racing were just a matter of "time", then cheap horses that occasionally run a fast time would be running against, and beating, GRADE I horses, and that just isn't going to happen.