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Originally Posted by Kasept
Further.. say what you will about Dutrow, but he kept trying with Frost Giant until he figured out what to do with him...
http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...816#post392816
From Dave Grenig's BEL notes last week:
"He's a hard horse to figure out; I still ain't got him figured out yet," Dutrow said. "He's going good now though. I don't have a problem trying what we're going to try."
Dutrow said if Frost Giant runs big Wednesday, he'll leave him at Belmont with Bobby Frankel and walk him into the Suburban.
"I'll put him on the lead in the Suburban," Dutrow said. "I'll put Rudy [Rodriguez] on him and let him ride him right out of there, that's what the horse wants. He doesn't want you to take a hold of him." |
But he wasn't on the lead (Naughty New Yorker pulled Prado there), and they did take a hold of Frost Giant through rather pedestrian fractions.
That being said, I think the race was more a case of Solar Flare losing the race, as it looked like he had put Frost Giant away turning for home.