Note to Garret Gomez

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Guys, he didn't stop riding yesterday. I was at the finish line and I just watched the replay a few times. I think with all jockey's period you could give a ton of examples of bad rides. That's just how it is. Prado's ride on Songster was definitely questionable. Johnny V on Vig on Saturday. I personally don't think he is with Prado, who's so consistent it's scary, or Johnny V who is immensly talented. But he isn't far off, and his presence in the East has done nothing but help prices on the other two guys I think.

Now we have 3 posters who watched the replay multiple times and say Gomez didn't stop riding. But it will still be another bad ride to oracle and scuds.

If Gomez keeps making the same stupid mistake, as Scuds insists, you'd think it would be easy for the other riders to get the best of him. But there he sits on top of the list of money-earners.

Funny, too, how the trainers that use Gomez haven't been turned off by Gomez' stupidity. Somehow he keeps getting mounts on so many top horses, despite all his "obvious" shortcomings. It's good to know we've got folks here who are so much smarter than the top trainers.

Yesterday Gomez rode for Pletcher, Biancone, Hertler, Blasi, Reynolds, James Jerkins, and Clement. You'd think that some of them would have noticed how easy it is for Gomez to get trapped into a mistake. But they just keep giving him good mounts in their ignorance, I guess.

--Dunbar