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The Remsen was on a heavily inside speed biased track. Dornoch was the inside most speed horse. He put away the disadvantaged outside chasers in a fast pace. IMO, that makes it one of those fuzzy trips where Dornoch was used hard early but on the best part of the track and Sierra Leone got a good pace setup but was against the track a bit being outside. I don't bet chalk very often, but I played Sierra Leone back off that race and again in the Bluegrass.
The Bluegrass was one of the more interesting preps in that the race was loaded with speed, projected to be a fast pace, the fractions were very fast, but the race didn't fall apart that much. So either the horses up front early (Just A Touch, Epic Ride, Dornoch and Top Conor) ran quite a bit better than it looks for new tops or those fast fractions didn't have as much of an impact on the race as you would expect.
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