More Race Strategy

Young man's race strategy was interesting.  Recollection of Street Sense, 2007 KY Derby.  Relaxing out of the gate and commence to pass horses at the 6f.  Have always been mystified how few use this particular race strategy in the longer races.  It has so many advantages, as the young man last post demonstrated:

Permits physiology to catch up with the effort (instead of charging out of the gate and immediately piling up massive O2 debt).

Gets the horse mentally into the race starting at the 6f--horses love passing other horses.  I learn this from my riderless training.  They get the biggest charge and oomph out of  "the pass".

Other strong horses in the race comfortably maintaining their :12s never see this coming.

Our horse still has something left for the stretch run because although he made a 6f run to the wire, the run was at only a slightly faster than steady state (:12sec/f) pace.

Four race strategies, possible with variations(???):

Bodemeister--Mr. Wire To Wire

Zenyatta--Lay back, save all the ground, and then a lightening 4f burst to the wire. KY Derby winner Strike The Gold another e.g.

Street Sense--as described above.

Drafting behind the leaders--Pressey's drafting post was interesting.  On dirt tracks this strategy somewhat compromised by "kick back", possibly.  Laying third or 4th behind the leaders with good horses is likely most popular.  

Which famous rhetorician or poet--was it Lucretius perhaps--warned to avoid "digression".  The subject here is race horse performance.  Will try to get it organized on a logical path.