I thought this race analysis would be an interesting teaching tool, one that I got from FTL. Having noticed the nice winning price he asked me if I could find the contenders and make a case for the winner. So all of the work was done after the fact, but I only used FTL's guidelines to whittle down the field. Here is the race. lifetime - more on that in a moment
Here are the conditions:
The 1 was scratched, the 3 and 4 were 20/1 and the 4 had been out 279 days to boot. leaving 1A, 2-5-6-7-8-9 to review for contender status. Track was fast!
1a non contender
Horse 2. Presser. Last line at this class, run at 5.5f on an off track; horse is - 1-9 lifetime, more on that later.
Horse 5. Last line, sustained horse, only sprint showing, 1-21 lifetime