Countdown

In my 40-some years of reading form and betting on horses, one of the best angles I’ve ever found has to do with staying 10 furlongs, not nine furlongs, especially at Churchill Downs. I can recall three occasions in which this principle resulted in big payoffs. The first was in the 1993 Breeders’ Cup Classic, which was of course at 10 furlongs, but in this instance at Santa…