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Old 06-13-2021, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Dahoss View Post
Have to feel for the connections of Weyburn. Zero doubt in my mind the silly whip rule cost him a win there.

What a joke
The ride was horrendous; whoever that was took a page out of Kent Desormeaux's book.

The horse's main weapon is his speed (and his ability to carry it over a distance). That genius throttled the horse down entering the backstretch and spent the first half mile looking around for Mandaloun. Then, inexplicably, after dispensing with the frontrunner and establishing first run, he doesn't try and break the race open but rather sits and waits like a sitting duck around the far turn, all the while again looking around multiple times for Mandaloun.

I guess his genius strategy was to let Mandaloun catch up to him and needlessly float his own horse out to engage the heavy favorite in some sort of scripted Pay-Per-View matchup. If he had just kicked on from the get-go, might never had been headed, whip or not...
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