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![]() For the first quarter mile:
The honor goes to the Kentucky Derby (119 on the 100 point scale) The second fastest came in an allowance at Belmont Park on May 26th (116 on the 100 point scale) Sister State ran an opening quarter of 22.34 in the one-turn mile and finished dead last of 8, beaten 22.5 lengths at 7/2 odds. Read The Research pressed that 22.34 first quarter from only a half length back, and finished 7th beaten 17 lengths as the 2/1 favorite. For the Half mile: Two-way tie between the Kentucky Derby and the Harrison E Johnson Memorial at Laurel on March 17th (both races 112 on a scale of 100) For six furlongs: The Harrison E Johnson Memorial at Laurel wins outright. The May 4th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs finishes 2nd outright. The winner of the Harrison E Johnson Memorial was Norman Absjournson. He was dead last, and 19 lengths back in the field of six, and raillied to win with a career best Beyer figure of 103 ![]() However, nothing was even remotely contested about the pace in the Harrison E Johnson Memorial .... Eighttofasttocatch completely ran off and did it all on his own. Here is the replay of the Harrison E Johnson Memorial from earlier in the year. It looked like a horse trying to do a Silence Suzuka or Precious Passion imitation. http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?...=D&country=USA |