Did Mario Pino cause Hard Spuns loss??

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Considering how comically slow the pace was---Pino wouldn't have had to gun him to make the lead.

And another poster mentioned Officer Rocket---he saved every inch of ground in that race

Okay, but since Pino didn't gun him, shouldn't we have witnessed some awesome burst of speed from him on the backstrech and turn. I still don't get how if this is such a big derby prospect that with that MILD bit of trip trouble that he had in the Southwest, he still ends up slowing and getting passed in the stretch run of a one mile race.