I have used the term lone speed often in write-ups, usually followed by the words \"save ground\".
This gets into semantics, but my view is that it\'s an advantage because it\'s a disadvantage for closers for reasons I mentioned, not because the horse in front runs any better (and as with Feathered, there are a million examples of ones that don\'t. But the closers who drew outside in that race were screwed the way the race was run-- their figures will be better than their results. Which is when we give out \"buried\" marks (\"!\").
