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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Only time the horse had shown any desire was up front. We see these horses in the form all the time. That's why it went off 9-1 . It hadn't shown desire when it couldn't get to the lead. Obviously, it did with Prado up. If people thought the trainer could get the horse to do that, then it would of taken more play. If it was the trainer, then surely people would have reminded us that the trainer had shown this ability with need-the-lead types.

So, because a horse that looked too slow on paper, and was claimed off of Todd Pletcher, won at 9:1, it was the jockey that made the horse win?

I beg to differ.