Fly Down to Donn

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by PatCummings

There is absolutely no arguing that Fly Down was given an atrocious ride - he should've won with a little more patience. It was stone cold awful. He hit the lead with 5/16ths to go!??

Just a disgraceful ride from Johnny Murtagh. Not as bad as his ride on Soldier of Fortune in the Breeders' Cup Turf from 2008, which I'll argue is one of the worst rides in the history of the Breeders' Cup, but really bad.

Fly Down had perfect position into the 1st turn -- he saved all the ground on both turns -- he made the lead willingly and had a clear trip. Assuming the rail wasn't dead -- I don't see a problem with that ride. The horse was struggling on his wrong lead late and may have an issue.