Belmont Fractions

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by Riot

Borel said the horse was overeager, and he had to make the choice to throttle him back and fight him or let him cruise a little up the backstretch, he chose cruise.

The trainer said, "Yup, that's what the horse has done in the past unsuccessfully" and "that's racing, Calvin did a great job".

right it was a question of finesse. Borel wasn't going wild asking for run, he just let way too much horse out. He made a comment that they were going too slow up front approaching the stretch so he had to let 'em go