Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

PP got a terrible ride that day. He wasn't rank. It was jockey error. It was Mike Smith who rode him that day. As Secretatriat said, PP liked to come from well off the pace, but that day he was battling it out on the lead with two other horses. There were three of them going head and head. Smith ackonwledged that he gave a bad ride and blew it.