Todd Pletcher

[Cartman]

If the track was speed favoring, Dunkirk certainly didn\'t benefit from it. So he\'s either as good as he looks on paper or better than he looks on paper. I\'m also not sure the race development helped him much. That track was blazing fast. 23.2 and 46.4 are not especially quick fractions on that kind of track. If anything, the middle part of the race on the turn was the quick part and Dunkirk was rallying wide into contention at that point. Perhaps that\'s why he didn\'t finish as well as might be expected.

Beyer gave the race a figure of 103. That looks a little slow to me. I noticed that some people said it was windy at GP that day. The FD was the only 9 furlong race of the day. Perhaps the wind was strong enough to impact both the fractions and final time relative to other races that day.

[Lost Cause]

Silver Charm Wrote:
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> Bill Murphy, Gulfstream\'s president, said, \"Here\'s
> the difference this week: We had three inches of
> rain last Sunday and we had no rain all winter.
> That settles the track and makes things faster. We
> prepared it the same way.\"

That\'s absolute garbage...Every time there is a big race day at every track..The track is made to produce ridiculous times with speed horses running very well regardless of fractions set......Watch what happens at AQU this Saturday for the Wood, the early races will seem okay and then as they get closer to the Wood the track will suddenly change to a lightning fast track....It\'s crazy..Pletcher was dead on..