Prado on Casino Drive

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

What did it cost him?

It's hard to say exactly.

If he's not a big favorite with a bullseye on his back - he and the two other speeds try and back the pace down and make it easy on each other and hard on the rest of the field.

Instead - Smith and Prado on the two other speed horses tried to do a little race riding with Big Brown and Kent did what he had to in order to get out of it.

Big Brown ran a very mediocre figure - and the other two speeds finished 11th and 12th in a 12 horse field - 8 lengths behind whoever finished 10th. Obviously all three would have ran better individual races if they decided to work as a team and backed down the pace instead of race ride.