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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
No,but you better go one slot wider than you think you need to.If you think he can run top 2 or 3 in the derby ,then you better use him 4th.This has not been a good derby rider,and the horse is at a handicap with him up.That's why I am not taking 40 or 50-1 on the horse right now.It's not because I don't think the horse is good enough to contend for the win.Now if I am writing where people can get me fired? Of course, I have to say the jock doesn't matter much.
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You want to go one slot wider, and all that, that's fine. However, if you are saying Solis has not been a good Derby rider -- thhn who has? Is that club limited to those who have won? Where does this arguement go? This is an arguement that cannot be won. It's one race, unlike any other, run once per year, under circumstances that many young, not fully mature, horses are facing for the first time, and so on and so on. You want to talk money rider, graded stakes rider, etc. -- that's a discussion that people can talk about. You can look at a much more global picture.
Sure there are jocks who you can easily say were great Derby riders. But to take a jock who has won 4 or 5 thousand races, has an excellent long standing, accomplished resume, etc. and say that he's not a great Derby rider -- I want to know why? For every reason -- opinion -- someone gives, there will be an opposing reason and opinion that counters it. There is no right and wrong here.
Eric