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Old 04-24-2010, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by NTamm1215 View Post
But he surely didn't lose aboard Sounds Familiar from not caring. I can understand your frustration if you needed the horse but I thought the outcome had more to do with a bit of bad luck in mid-stretch not being able to get through than Prado really doing anything wrong.

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He made a typical overconfident jockey mistake, insisting that a hole was going to open up instead of swallowing his pride and switching to the outside with clearly the best horse. I find that in turf races, the jockey who admits defeat on an inside course earliest is the jockey who usually wins. You can't switch out with a sixteenth left and expect to win.
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