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Thumb_hersh Marcus Hersh , Keeneland , 11/07/2020 - DRF Live Posted : Nov 7, 2020, 1:52 PM

Because the track is fast does not mean it's biased

Earlier, we went over the first three results, all on dirt, and how a 1-9 shot won race 1 on the lead, the pace-setter stopped in race two, and outside, off-the-pace horses ran 1-2 in race 3. Gamine tracked the speed winning race 4, while pace-setting Serengeti Empress, the second choice, barely held second over late-closing, outside-rallying Bell's The One. Then there was the Turf Sprint, and finally the Dirt Mile, won in an absurdly powerful performance from Knicks Go, who set a sprint pace in a two-turn race and won in a romp. Knicks Go was the 2-1 favorite here because he'd delivered a more minor version of this tour de force in a long-layoff comeback last month at Keeneland, and his trainer, Brad Cox, already had two runaway BC winners on the Friday card. So, was it a biased track that carried him home? Gamine? Nashville in race 1? Hardly. Speed is good, and the track - while ridiculously fast -- shouldn't, at least at this point, be called biased.

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