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Old 08-25-2008, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dalakhani
Obviously his job is to do a little more than ride the horses around the track although how much more is debatable. That wasnt my point.

My point was that his impact or any jockey's impact is truly overrated in regards to an individual race and completely overrated if one is to say that Kent D is "a symbol of much that is wrong in the game today".

Kent not following instructions, riding out to the wire or providing feedback really has no impact on the game as a whole. If kent's performance is that bad, trainers wont ride him any longer and the show will go on.
Riding out to the wire becomes pretty important when you have him in a triple or super and he wraps up and gets beat.
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