I have been involved in and watched all Triple Crown races since its inception eons ago. There has only been one winner, namely the legendary Sheza Troll who won it at the end of 2011. She was a freak who won 46 races from 4f-11f with the 12f the only distance that eluded her, even though she did place a couple of times. She had an imposing record (61-46-8-3) winning 1.2M in prizemoney and only 4 non-podium finishes from 61 starts. However, when she won the TC, it was a fillies only division and the distances were 8f/9f/10f. The colts races were 9f/10f/12f (I think)..
Some since have gone close to winning the Holy Grail but there is normally one distance that either exposes a weakness (usually 12f) or they had poor gate draws and got held up in traffic or pushed wide. With the current 8f/10f/12f distances that we currently have, I feel that the gap between a good 8f horse and expecting it to win at 12f is too large, My suggestion is to run the races to mirror real life i.e. 10f Derby, 9f Preakness and 12f Belmont in that order OR run them as 10f/11f/12f. I would prefer the latter as 9f is a weird distance on the DD tracks. It is normally a front runners distance, they seem to be able to keep kicking on even though they have been known to fade at the mile. From experience my good 9f horses are also good at 7f but suck at the mile.
This is only a suggestion and I won't slit my wrists if there aren't any changes.
Thoughts?
Norm
Some since have gone close to winning the Holy Grail but there is normally one distance that either exposes a weakness (usually 12f) or they had poor gate draws and got held up in traffic or pushed wide. With the current 8f/10f/12f distances that we currently have, I feel that the gap between a good 8f horse and expecting it to win at 12f is too large, My suggestion is to run the races to mirror real life i.e. 10f Derby, 9f Preakness and 12f Belmont in that order OR run them as 10f/11f/12f. I would prefer the latter as 9f is a weird distance on the DD tracks. It is normally a front runners distance, they seem to be able to keep kicking on even though they have been known to fade at the mile. From experience my good 9f horses are also good at 7f but suck at the mile.
This is only a suggestion and I won't slit my wrists if there aren't any changes.
Thoughts?
Norm
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