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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
Your saying he is generally a top rider,and using stats to prove it.I am giving you instances of poor rides he has had on heavy chalk.I think the amalgam of the two would be that he generally rides well,but you may not want to depend on him to get a chalk single home.That I would agree with.
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I never bet chalk and I don't play Pik 3s or Pik 4s, so that wouldn't be a problem for me. I still don't know if that's true though. I'm sure he has given some bad rides on favorites. I don't deny that. I have seen a few of them. But he has also given a ton of great rides on favorites. You have to be careful drawing a conclusion from a limited sample. I've even seen Tiger have periods where he plays poorly for a few months straight. It would be pretty silly if I made conclusions about Tiger based on a three month stretch where he wasn't playing his best.
By the way, you guys would have been bashing Gomez so hard if he would have given the ride that Prado gave Songster the other day. Prado goes three-wide, head and head in :44 1/5 on a deep and tiring track. Yet you guys didn't say a word about what a bad ride Prado gave. These jocks all make mistakes sometimes.
With regard to getting boxed in, if you are riding come-from-behinders in big fields, you will get boxed in sometimes. There is no way to avoid it unless you want to go five-wide around both turns. At least Gomez tries to swing to the outside at the head of the lane. Most of these guys aren't even smart enough to do that. They just sit there and hope something opens up.