Kentucky Derby / Energy!

[Dap Daddi]

Richie:

The attached sheet represents the contenders I considered wrth plottingwith respect to a represnetitive race of either 8.5 (1 1/16th mile0 or 9.0 (1 1/8th miles) of which I took each horse's final time and subtracted the finish time from the mile and multiplied the number times four in the instance the race was 8.5 furlongs or multiplied it times 2 if the race was 9.0 furlongs. The end result was to get a representitive time for 1 1/4 miles of which the sheet shows. I then took each horses internal fractions from one call to the next and subrtracted it to get each horses internal times. Thus the attached spreadsheet.

I would be curious to hear what you and others thinnk of the data presented.

Interestingly the pace line for Cause to Believe was not from a Grade 1 or Grade 2 race which is one of Doc's rules for selecting the Derby Contender. I used the $100K race for hime. Everyone else listed is from a Grade !1 or Grade 2 race.

Interested in hearing your comments!