I disagree that powerscourt's ride was worse. In that case he just made one extremely stupid mistake. Granted it was one of the dumbest mistakes ever made.
But the Pius ride was a masterpiece of incompetence. A true tapestry of horrors. He basically managed to weave every possible mistake a jockey can make into one, one mile race. It was quite a feat.
Please watch the Mutaugh ride on Whipper last year, if anyone can truly give me any type of explanation as to what his goals and aims possibly were, I'd love to hear it. truly. My best possible explanation is that a rival jock slipped LSD into his gatorade before the race. There is no way anyone could be that horrendous on just sheer incompetence. Little kids at a pony riding academy could have given much better rides.