If you watch a replay of the Champagne, the horse ducks in and is swishing his tail all around when he was whipped. The final 200 yards or so when he is hand ridden, he was not swishing his tail.
I wonder if this is why Pletcher didn't want him hit. I don't think he would have held on anyway.
Without knowing anything else about the horse that would seem to be the logical reason.
11-04-2013, 06:10 PM
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