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Originally Posted by easy goer
Birdstone was not hanging his head like that, but I guess he knew he won the race. Nor did Smarty ever hang his down like that that I can recall.
He did bear out as he rounds the turn, it seemed like a lot to me at the time. Did he not continue to bear out as the went down the stretch? How far off the pole do you make him? This was noticeable to me...
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he didn't bear out. as for comparing him to birdstone, birdstone wasn't pressured from the word go, unlike smarty. smarty was a tired horse at the end of the race, but he wasn't injured. as much as he was worth, had there been a hint of injury, he'd have been retired immediately, rather than going back to his homebase, and then back into training.