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Old 11-12-2009, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by gales0678
drugs i still think if you put mike smith on Gio Ponti and Dominguez on Zenyatta she doesn't win the race

smith gave her an perfect textbook ride for the pro surface as he should because he's a west coast based jock . ramon, a big a inner dirt specialit made the cardinal mistake of not getting his horse over to the best part of the track for the stretch drive - not only did he lose becuase he was on the deader part of the track , gio ponti never saw zenyatta and never had a chance to look her in the eye , if ramon could have gotten outside of her , we could have seen a different result
Dominguez is more that an "inner dirt specialist." Did you miss his performance at Belmont and Saratoga this year? He gave Gio Ponti a perfect ride in the Classic; Gip Ponti was simply outfinished by Zenyatta (who followed Gio Ponti from the half-mile pole to the quarter-pole along the rail).
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