30th March 2008, 01:15 AM
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Thanks Stix,
The quickest by G1 class in my database was Lonhro 5/4/2003
Lonhro went on to win the Queen Elizabeth (G1), Warwick Stakes (G2), Chelmsford Stakes (G2), George Main (G1), Caulfield Stakes (G1), that year.
The slowest by G1 class was Coco Cobanna on 29/4/2000
Coco Cobanna went on to win a Quality race and a Metropolitan (G1) that year.
In the Metropolitan she beat, Pasta Express, who was really a G2 horse.
She failed in four other attempts at G1 racing that year subsequently and ran unplaced in G2 and G3 company also that year.
Guess I'm getting at not picking winners, but picking class and no class horses to back and to lay.
Weekend Hussler should by all rights have got rolled today, so should Zarita really, it was that tiny extra bit they had in the tank that got them over the line. A weeny bit less, and they both get beaten.
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