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Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985
Is this Miller being a sore loser or does he have a point? IMO the horse was dead tired and was stopping badly. Anyone else have an opinion?
http://www.drf.com/news/premium/big-...rs-cup-classic
Here is the important stuff from the article.....
The incident with Wicked Strong, and the resulting injury to jockey Rajiv Maragh, was the most noticeable incident in the strangely run race. But Miller was left puzzled about Ortiz’s handling of Big Cazanova, believing the rider simply gave up on the horse at the quarter pole.
“We weren’t happy with the effort of the rider in New York,” Miller said. “I called the stewards, and Ortiz told them the horse was lugging out. But I didn’t see that at all. It was all very strange. Thank God the horse is good.” |
I was totally puzzled by it. I was watching the race live and at first I thought that either the saddle slipped or he had some type of broken equipment. Then I thought that maybe the horse had taken a bad step and was being pulled up. It was strange to say the least. He looked like he had some horse as they were approaching the 5/16 pole, yet instead of riding the horse he was restraining the horse. I actually called a couple of people after the race to ask if they saw it. It's pretty unusual to see a horse on the lead and appearing to be running fine and to have the jockey restraining the horse (at a point in the race when you need to start asking the horse).
It's not unusual for a jockey to wrap up on a horse after the horse starts tiring, but it's very unusual to see a jock wrap up on a horse before the horse starts tiring, which looked like the case in this race. The only thing I can think of is that the horse simply didn't feel right to the rider, yet all I heard the rider say was that the horse was getting out a little. Maybe he meant that the horse didn't feel right and that was just a nice way of saying that. I don't know.