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Old 04-23-2014, 12:17 PM   #7
Bill Lyster
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Chart comment #2

There might be other charts to comment upon, but this one also caught my eye. I agree that this race needs a good closer. So far, here is my candidate.

The Hat talked about POWER MOVES, well look at this one. Dance With Fate inhaled almost the entire field, going from 11th out of 14 to first from the backstretch to the start of the stretch. Admittedly, it was on poly track, but DWF has passed horses on turf and regular dirt when not impeded at the start as he was in BC Juvenile; he was squeezed at start in DMR Futurity, was 10th at 1/2 mile 6.75 L back and lost by 0.5 L (another poly performance, BTW)

DWF's turn time was a sparkling 23.74 followed up by a final furlong in 12.23. No other horse in this race ran a faster final eighth. Of course with a race six furlong time of 112.74 he still might need some help from others up front in order to win.
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