TGJB,
Took a relatively quick look through the various races. No major questions, but two things caught my eye.
1. The Classic looks pretty slow. A 117 Beyer figure, which obviously you disagree with. It seems the track would have had to speed up quite a bit for Fort Larned to have only paired. His BC Classic being the same figure as his somewhat disgusting run in the Jockey Club Gold Cup does not come close to passing the \"eye test\" to me. (yes, I know the eye test is flawed and not science)
2. I knew the 2 year old colts race was slow, but boy those figues are awfully slow. Pace + lack of lasix? Or despicable field? Or both?
Jim
Jimbo-- the track overall got faster through the day, especially for the one turn races. I used a track speed for the Classic about 1 1/2 points faster than the other routes, but it is true you could make a case for taking off another point or so, and I have the race down for review (though I don\'t expect we\'ll see too many of those back too soon).
Re the Juvenile-- maybe lack of Lasix (at least one, Capo Bastone, reportedly bled), maybe lack of something else. The four best horses in the race were trained by guys whose horses didn\'t run a step all weekend.
I would also like to point out well in advance of next year that the Euro figures held up great. The FM Turf produced some jumpups, but mostly they were dead on, especially in the 2yo races where they didn\'t use Lasix.
I would also like to say that I didn\'t realize until a couple of days afterward that Grassy (who I used) ran second-- I thought it was Atigun, too busy throwing stuff at the couch as they crossed the wire to notice. That South American SOB cost me a LOT of money, my guess is half the pick 6 pool and a ton of 5\'s.