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Old 06-03-2008, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
So saving ground on the turf is a bad thing? Seems Bailey made a pretty good living doing exactly the same thing. Sometimes, the hole doesn't open, and the jock will "look bad," but in the long run, the rider is giving his horse a better chance to win. It sure beats being 3-4 wide and losing all that ground.
It's RELATIVE. It's definitely the way to go on tight turn, hard surface courses where NOTHING comes back. On wide sweeping courses, like BEL, where getting a clear run is the most important thing a jock can do, it's NOT the way to go.

Gomez is riding perfectly for HOL. Problem is, he's at BEL.
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