Not quite two months into our 2009 season and we have an interesting leaderboard for the top PSR's of the year.
- Pleasant Vengeance - 125.725
- Attack At Dawn - 124.535
- Miss Bust - 123.335
- Miss Bust - 122.129
- Feellikeanumber - 121.856
- Sverige - 121.839
- Purple Passion - 120.798
- Fashion Tower - 120.798
- Diabla - 120.036
- Attack At Dawn - 120.029
- Queen Street - 119.898
- Returnofthedancer - 119.435
- Ur Wildest Dreams - 119.394
- Fuchsia - 119.139
- Machete - 118.759
- Racey Lake - 118.017
- Morning After - 117.355
- Bold N' Honorable - 116.809
- Yes Zippy Can - 116.735
- Little Big Sky - 116.451
- Vivaldi - 116.031
- Mystic River - 115.987
- Victory Dance - 115.855
- Perfect Dancer - 115.675
- Turf Dreams - 115.617
- Of the 25, only 13 of them were winning efforts! 9 came from second place horses, 2 from third place finishers, and one was even from a 4th place horse!
- Only one horse (Little Big Sky) made the list with a speed rating of less than "Very Good". He was also one of only two horses to crack the list in a race other than a sprint.
- The surface breakdown: 16 on turf and 9 on dirt.
- The list consists of 13 fillies and 12 colts. But, 10 of the first 11 are from fillies.
- Two 6YO's and two 5YO's made the list. It sure is nice seeing the older horses still in training.
- Five 2YO's in the list...all fillies...from just two races. Talk about stacked races, there were two other 100+ performances from those two races as well.
- Player owned stallion report: Eight player owned stallions are represented on the list. Bellbuster with three offspring. Bold N' Free and Revenge with two. One each from Dawn Patrol, Forest Dancer, King Midas, Spanish Midnight, and Troll Tower.
- Pleasant Vengeance?!?! Where the heck did that come from? She is a Revenge, so maybe it shouldn't be surprising. But, the other two horses in that race (#24 Perfect Dancer and Love For Thunder) managed to post 114+ PSR's as well. Despite the fact that they've combined for 1 win in 62 starts between them! Kind of sounds like the track was souped up or something.
- Three world records on the list, and two of them belong to horses from Firstholme Racing. Not a bad way to start off a season!
- Doing it on the big stage: 5 of the performances came in Grade 1's (though only two of them were winners).
- For all the fans of underdogs, isn't it pretty neat to see an offspring of Zippy Chippy do well?
4 comments:
Nary a horse from Otsego Farms. :(
Does it seems like there has been more instances of 100+ speed scores this season?
Well, I don't know if there's been more than usual. But, I can tell you that there were 201 up until this week.
There were another 41 this week (out of 337 racers for 12.2%).
Total for the year now is 242 out of 1328 runs for 18.2%. So, about 2 out of every 11...that doesn't seem too excessive. I do like to see more fast runners though. Makes the races all that more interesting and competitive. Though it can be frustrating as we had a couple of horses (Blitzkrieg and Big Easy) that turned in pretty nice performances (105 and 103 PSR's) and ended up finishing 5th and 6th in their race. For Blitzkrieg, it was his best ever time for 7 furlongs. So, I can't really be all that disappointed.
Oh yeah, and Blitzkrieg won this race last year in 1:21.74. His 1:21.25 this year gets him 5th.
The only thing that I see from the list that remains constant throughout this game is the domination by fillies (including the speeds of this year's 2yos). It saddens me.
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