Eddington/Bailey

[dalakhani]

Hennig was not happy with Bailey's ride and Bailey never rode Eddington again. Bailey actually broke out the stick on the backstretch although he claimed at the time that he just tapped him on the shoulder to wake him up.

Race riding is a part of the sport and it always has been. Obviously, letting Smarty run his race wasn't working out so well. The idea of pressing smarty early with a horse like RHT or Eddington would make sense to me being that they both seemed bigger and better bred to go longer.

If Smarty was good enough, he would have won.

[pointman]

The problem I had with Bailey's ride was that he was riding to beat Smarty, not to win. If I owned Eddington I would have kicked Bailey in the nuts when he got off the horse.

[Revidere]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Hennig was not happy with Bailey's ride and Bailey never rode Eddington again. Bailey actually broke out the stick on the backstretch although he claimed at the time that he just tapped him on the shoulder to wake him up.

Race riding is a part of the sport and it always has been. Obviously, letting Smarty run his race wasn't working out so well. The idea of pressing smarty early with a horse like RHT or Eddington would make sense to me being that they both seemed bigger and better bred to go longer.

If Smarty was good enough, he would have won.

If I'm not mistaken, Bailey never rode for Hennig again either.