Aqueduct fifth race March 31

You're funny. I guess you never heard of it. When a horse with an outside post stays out on the crown of the track down the backstretch, it's running in "Ussery's Alley", named after Robert Ussery, who used it a lot decades ago. What he did was stay out there toward the lead, then as they went into the turn he'd drop down toward the rail, basically running downhill for a few hundred feet. That was sometimes worth a length or two.

Unfortunately Maragh didn't use it correctly, he moved inside today too early, and was already near the rail by the time they hit the turn. He was never going to beat the winner but he could have been a length or two closer if he waited a little longer.

Here's an article about it from back in 1986, years after Ussery did it.

articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-10-26/sports/8603050124_1_horse-10-day-suspension-timing