Route Times at Keeneland

[TreadHead]

Curious as to what the thoughts are about the slow fractions in route races today at Keeneland.  6 Furlong times:

MSW-F - 1:16.28
MSW-F - 1:15.50
ALWNW1X - 1:15.36
Grade 3 - 1:14.90

Granted, other than the G3 the fields were certainly not anywhere near top notch, but these times are still remarkably slow.  Is this a product of people being afraid to take the lead because of the late track bias in previous meets?  Or just a huge track variant for that day?  It messed me up a bit today for sure, as I was not expecting front runners to do that well based on recent meets, but with times that slow it\'s not surprising many of them were still around at the end.

Seems to be a rail bias in addition.....

[miff]

Tread,

You may not have noticed the now obvious \"poly-wobble\" in the strecth precipitationg two take downs. Sprints seemed honest enough but jocks were holding early in the routes as horses tend to get tired the further they go on polyquack

Mike