It's funny that I mentioned Into Mischief yesterday, because he's a first-crop sire, and on Sunday at Del Mar his 2-year-old Goldencents rang up some of the most impressive finishing fractions I can ever recall, at least by a 2-year-old winning wire-to-wire. In the 5 1/2-furlong race, he went the 1/8th from 4f to 5f in 10.95. Sounds like a work at a 2-year-old sale, doesn't it? Then he finished with a cool 5.69 for the final 1/16th.
The track was fast; that mile record I spoke of last week finally fell, to the powers of Potesta, and my varant was 1:08.35 for 6f = 100. But the track was hardly the speed of a typical firm turf course.
The two final fractions combined for a 16.64 final 3/16ths. That comes out to a 22.19-quarter pace. Goldencents ran his first two quarters in 22.83 and 23.32.
The early fractions were perhaps too slow to grant him a maximum-ability figure, and that's extremely unusual in a 5.5-furlong race (I got the Beyer-style number at 90.6, but I haven't been using the higher points-per-second-deviation on synthetic that Beyere recommends, which would lead to a better number).
Running as fast as he did late, it's sort of surprising that Goldencents lead "only" stretched from 1 1 1/2 lengths after 3/8ths, to 7 1/4 lengths at the wire. But evidently, others were also able to finish well, as they pivoted as well from the slow early fractions.
As quick as Into Mischief's dam was, I wonder what kind of distances his progeny will prefer, even though he won the Cashcall Futurity. With a dam by Banker's Gold, and a 2nd dam by Bold Ruckus, at first blush one would not think Goldencents would be the Into Mischief to break through as a router.
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