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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I think analyzing the ride is much ado about nothing.
You knew going into the race the other jocks would have a bullseye on BB's back.
You knew going in that Da Tara was going to make the lead - and KJD isn't stupid enough to hook a 40/1 longshot with a horse that has rated kindly and unleashed huge turn moves in both of the first two legs of the triple crown.
You knew going in that the ruthless Eibar Coa was riding Tale Of Ekati - who has tactical speed, was drawn outside of BB, and was obviously going to race ride BB.
In hindsight - the best strategy would have been a seemingly incredibly insane strategy going into the race. It would be for Kent to pull a page from the Ramon Dominguez playbook and stay glued to the rail. The rail was good enough - see Forefathers performance - and as it turned out ... Da Tara was clearly more horse than Tale of Ekati, which means Big Brown would have got out of the box if he had more horse than ToE.
However, Big Brown had no horse so all this doesn't matter.
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Forefathers performance was not because of a decent rail, he got an unbelievable trip and was the best horse number wise