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I took another look at the replays from the date in question. I also took another look at my notes and the charts. Visually, it was and still is my sense that late in the day that Saturday and all of that Sunday the inside was a little deep. There is cetainly not enough empirical evidence to date to support that notion. According to my records - they did grade the track on Monday and brought some soil back toward the crown. I believe Porcelli alluded to that as well on the morning OTB show that Monday. At this point I don\'t think I\'d excuse a poor performance strictly because a horse was down inside that day but I\'m inclined to give a little extra credit to a horse that gave a decent effort down inside. I\'ll be very interested to see how Bowman\'s Band runs today.
