# Would have won preaknesd?

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**Created:** [May 20, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-have-won-preaknesd/814485 "2018-05-20T01:29:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-have-won-preaknesd/814485/1 "2018-05-20T01:29:31Z")

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At the very end of the race, there was one horse coming up fast (jockey in green I think) who would have passed Justify and others if the course had been fifty feet longer. Anyone know what horse that was?

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-have-won-preaknesd/814485/2 "2018-05-20T17:12:54Z")

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Bravazo, trained by D. Wayne Lukas.

Don’t be so sure he would have passed Justify. Even though 3 horses were making up ground on him approaching the finish, he didn’t allow any of them to pass him on the gallop out past the wire.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-have-won-preaknesd/814485/3 "2018-05-20T20:42:27Z")

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If the race was longer who’s to say Justify wouldn’t have run it differently? That’s the whole point of the Preakness, it’s short.