Will Gomez ruin Preakness for "King of the Roxy"

[ELA]

I think it's very easy to watch a rider -- any rider -- over a short period of time, then either pick out certain rides or only see a small # of rides (in that short period of time) and ultimately be drawn to a conclusion. May or may not be true and regardless the conclusion can be distorted by many things.

Has Gomez made mad decisions before? Sure and so has every other jock in the game. If in fact this has been a pattern over the past week there can be and is reasoning behind it. He didn't just wake up one day and forget how to ride, start making fundamental mistakes that the world can pick up on, etc.

In a race like this, if a certain horse is my pick, and the jock had been riding the horse successfully, I am not going to be so quick to jump off. Isolated case -- jock is a small factor here.

If KOTR was my choice for the Preakness, there is no way I would be jumping off him just because Gomez is riding.

Eric