Why was he so far off Heywood? It’s one thing to be off a pace that collapses, it’s another thing to put your horse in a place where he can’t run his best race in respect to his main rival. Heywood was the clear main rival. A rival he’d been in front of the prior race. So why today be 5 lengths off that rival?
Maybe they were afraid he couldn’t handle the 10F?
I don’t know that answer. But to say it wasn’t because of Kent is wrong. But also to say it was because of Kent is also wrong. We just can’t know without having an open discussion (which we won’t ever get) from the connections.
It’s just frustrating because the optics of that ride were awful. You shouldn’t ride a horse that’s 4/5 that way.
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