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a MUST

(WED) November 6th, 2024

8:01 p.m. Looking into the other factor from my notes, "speed for the last three furlongs is a MUST".

Surely, horses that finished in the top three of the last three furlongs' in their previous races were performing well in the past 10 years. Excluding year 2022, 2021 and 2020 because Queen Eizabeth Cup was run at Hanshin, 13 horses out of 21 horses that finished above third place in Queen Elizabeth Cup wer in the top 3 in the fastest last three furlongs ranking of their previous race.

So that's why I thought the finishing speed was a MUST. The remaining 8 horses except for Mikki Queen when she run in year 2017, seem to have gone up front in their previous races, which explains why their last three furlongs weren't fast enough to be listed in the top three.

Will try and see if I could dig out anything about these 8 horses that went up front in their step races. It might help me pick the right horses this weekend.

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