Proud Tower Too

Originally Posted by DiscreetCat=Monster

Prado was already tapping LH on the shoulder at the 1/4 pole and PTT was still in hand and LH was never in tight like he should of been. LH ran a game race in a steller time but there is no way in hell that is not a closer race without that jock looking in his rearview mirror 10 times, plus if he knew he got away with soft fractions why look back, there is no way they are gonna close on a soft pace with those calibur of horses

Why does he need to put the other horse in tight? I agree that the jock blew the turn a bit but he never asked the horse at that juncture. The horse basically took the turn on his own, loose reigned. Thus, looking back had no affect on the outcome.

He easily hooked LH midstretch and just flat out didn't go by him when it was time to run.

Your hypothesis is that if he'd hard ridden the horse EARLIER the horse runs down LT. But he wasn't hard ridden at all and he still couldn't get by a horse that was being asked before they finished the turn. In other words he HUNGGGGGGGGGGGggg,

Tough beat, nonetheless.