The placed horses could hardly have been better for the bookies.
But by the time it reached ground level O'Neill had the placed the ball and was walking back to his mark.
The placed horses had been fourth and seventh behind Olympic Glory at Newmarket, suggesting we should not take too positive a view of the form.
The placed horses from the Dante, Arod and True Story, were just behind the main protagonists with Red Galileo running a massive race, too.
The placed was listed for $1.375 million, with monthly charges around $1,600, and the couple didn't feel it would save them as much money as they wanted.
This muted, sad novel breaks down the distinction between the placed and the displaced, dissolving our sense of security, if we had one, about safely belonging in the world, dispelling our illusion of being at home.
Surprisingly, Cause Of Causes now has a British rating 4lb below the one he had when he won at last year's Festival, albeit that was in a non-handicap in which the placed horses had much lower ratings.
We're getting higher-rated horses running in it and it's knocking on the door, but while it's often got quite a decent winner, the placed horses tend to drag it down a little".
However, youth-training NGO the Pratham Institute has found this to be a misleading metric that doesn't account for all the placed students who never show up for work, or quit soon after starting.
I think there's a good chance that we will end up with a higher rating for Frankel, because the placed horses from the Royal Lodge [Klammer and Treasure Beach] will come out and boost the form".
It was the best part of four lengths back to What A Friend and, with the placed horses receiving a hefty 10lb, that must be counted pretty solid form.
