Did Mario Pino cause Hard Spuns loss??

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I didn't see the trip as being that bad. To me it looked very ordinary given the post. He showed me very little in that race.

Good luck with him, you'll need it.

I tend to agree....initially I was a big critic of the ride, to the point where I said Pino had ridden him for the last time...I will say it was combination of a couple of things one of which was the ride....the other and it was posted here was that Jones or Pino paid no attention to the rail bias in the races prior....he was never put into position to win.....now I have a hard time with the excuse of he didn't like the track because one of the reasons (beside a cough) that they didn't ship to the Risen Star was because of how much he loved the track. Now the last reason and I think the one none of the "fans" want to talk about is he's not that good......he's a nice horse, but he's not as good as the ink said he was......