Quote Originally Posted by The Form Student View Post
No sprint lane at Albion Park may have produced a different winner last night, cool calculating Luke, may have had to make a decision to hold lead, and for Avonnova to then sit parked......who wins, I don't know! No sprint lane, does FAR get out in time to win, who knows, I don't! The tactics employed, did not allow for an out and out war of attrition to eventuate!
You are of course correct about there perhaps being a different winner of the QPC without the sprint lane, but IMO way off in how the race would have played out & what Luke would have had to do in it without that very SL......the reason he risked using up FAR early was because he knew there was a fantastic chance he lands on the back of the fav.....without SL scenario, there is no doubt he looks for a position in the running line and tries to dive bomb late. Basically what I'm getting at is all racing is not generic and tactics (sometimes risky) are definitely involved when trying to utilise the SL.

side note: Luke pulled their pants down AGAIN! When the field came out my speed map had him in the very position he ended up in and thought the early price of $3.40 was tight but spot on. Unfortunately I found myself listening to the interview he did pre-race stating FAR had never really shown that much early speed and it definitely sounded like the peg position wasn't an option......great dummy Luke, I certainly fell for it.