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Neon wrote:

When a Maiden runs a faster time than all the Grade 1 runners on Scotsville Sprint day

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Neon wrote:

When a Maiden runs a faster time than all the Grade 1 runners on Scotsville Sprint day

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was the 1st thing I noticed when doing the sectionals....everything was was much faster. Early pace.....even finishing pace. My conclusion was it was 1 of 2 things.....

1) there was a strong tailwind blowing or

2) the track...for that race atleast was just super fast. Not so long ago I explained how useless it is to look at OverallRACE times explaining where in HK I have seen time and time again CLASS 5 horses break the course and distance record. That is days when the track was running super fast.

but as will be seen in my report....Vice versa  can also happen.....In that race only 1 horse came from the back becoz it was suited to the frontrunners...

but all other Sprints....MOST of the TOP 5 finishers of every RACE...about 80 - 90% of them came from the back....simply becoz the track ran 'heavy' and they were suited best. All the Brilliant finishes was aided by a 'heavy' track (meaning favours horses running on) So most of those who were orlooked so brilliant might have been a case of 'best in favour' As allsprints was run at very fast fractions up front

 

PeterD wrote:

Or maybe the time for the maiden race was just incorrectly reported?? There are often mistakes with reported times.
There was only a length and a half between the first three, so very hard to believe that three maidens are capable of gr1 class times. The well exposed Queen bee (MR68) was 4th beaten just 3.5L.