[Ted Craven]

Thanks for breaking down the elimination process and betting strategy - I appreciate it. I also used line 1 for the #1 but it of course showed worse than line 4 and frankly would not give the horse the excuses to use line 4. Still, as you say, it showed a longshot VDC/CSR pattern with still not so bad corollaries.

I did not have access to its past history at this exact distance. That might have helped me retain it as even a LS contender, though with 2 pretty bad failures at 9f and 9.5f in the last 10 races, I can see why public confidence was not exactly high that this time it would hit at 9f.

Congratulations again.

Ted