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Originally Posted by dalakhani
What was wrong with the ride? He was basically running on the lead. Was he not supposed to peek back to see who was coming? How was he supposed to know when to move? His trip was close to perfect.
Kent got lucky and found the rail and his horse was good enough to get through. Interactif losing had nothing to do with his jockey.
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It was a very subtle mistake he made, instead of pinching an advantage at the top of the stretch he waited for POP to gain position on the turn and pull up to his inside and that was the whole ballgame, one can say there was nothing wrong about the ride and if you are riding safe I guess that is the case, however in the subtle things that make a difference in winning and losing it was a mediocre ride, the rider had the horse off the pace in the 2 path waited until POP to make his move, lost the tactical advantage and kicked on. Being reactive rather than proactive, any journeyman jockey could reproduce a ride like that, no need for Pletcher to fly in Javier.