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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
I'm hoping you are being facetious, but I don't think you are.
Therefore.
Let the frickin thing run! You think letting her go 51.3 instead of 53 would drain her more than fighting with her and getting her in tight and taking up every furlong or so would?
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You clearly buy into the Eric Donovan method of trip handicapping: The trivial steadying while drafting is not relevant.
He DID let her run and he was INSIDE, for practically the entire race. When they turned for home SHE WAS EMPTY. She didn't steady on final turn, btw, though the racecaller wanted to think she did, and just couldn't keep up.
Once she broke slow, she was cooked. Just even that didn't really matter: Criticism just has more speed than she does and thus was going to control the race. The fault lies with Clement and the other trainers. Guess they don't mind having others collect easy money.
The idea is not to follow them and throw away money in these types of races.