Sierra Leone won the $1 mil. Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland yesterday, beating Just A Touch by two lengths. Coming out of the far turn, Sierra Leone was about six wide but found his stride down the stretch, accelerating in the final eighth. Sierra Leone was the third selection with theoretical odds of 9-2 compared to final odds of 8-5. The second selection, Just a Touch at 3-1 (7-2 theoretical odds), was leading the race down the stretch until the final sixteenth when he was overtaken by Sierra Leone. As mentioned in the preview, Just a Touch had a very strong COMP figure of 61.5% (4-5 equivalent), indicating that the horse projected very well against the field on a component level (i.e., E1, E2 and LP) in the aggregate in the simulation. Dornoch at 5-2 (7-2 theoretical odds) finished fourth.
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