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Originally Posted by ELA
Sure, I can see that. But again, I think there is more to it than that. The content doesn't make sense, but the context is a much broader conversation.
I don't blame Dutrow here and I don't blame Desormeaux. That certainly doesn't make it right and it certainly doesn't preclude one from laying blame on the other. This is a situation where it's very easy to blame the jock. If the jock made a judgement call and it turned out to be wrong, then you are never going to be satisfied with the outcome that got played out.
Eric
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I'm not blaming anyone. I certainly don't think Desormeaux did anything wrong.
In terms of running the horse with that quarter crack, it's a judgement call. I have some trainers that said they would have never run him with that quarter crack. I've got another trainer who said that he had a horse pop a quarter crack that looked just as bad as that 3 days before a huge race. They ran the horse and he won easily. So you just never know.