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05-23-2007, 04:37 PM
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Looking back is not an issue. My issue is why he continued to whip the horse when having a two length lead. If he stayed off the whip, you have yourself a shot at The TC. 
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05-23-2007, 04:43 PM
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Curlin stumbled out of the gate, had to ridden along at a key stage very early on in the race, was under a hand ride long before the half mile pole, didn't corner well on the far turn, and got swallowed off the far turn because he couldn't get the needed seperation on Street Sense.....
Borel rode a flawless race....and his horse has a habit of doing everything wrong in the very late stages of his race. This thread is a bit comical. I'm just waiting for a 'How easily would Curlin have won the Derby if he was ridden by Ramon Dominguez?' thread.
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05-23-2007, 05:07 PM
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Hats off to Curlin for being the best in the Preakness. I had a good day of capping so it's not sour grapes on my part, but all this about Borel being flawless is getting pretty old, too. Heck, he tried to run up Curlin's ass in the very first turn, had to check a bit and definitely lost some ground. As to looking back in the stretch, can't say it cost him the race, but it was not the thing to do. Far from flawless.
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05-23-2007, 06:53 PM
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when is the last time you have ridden in a horse race? if he stopped whipping and hand rode you would then be on here stating that jocks carry whips for a reason and if he hit SS 2 more times he would have won. give it a rest. SS and Curlin are 2 very nice colts who ran a very memorable race.
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05-23-2007, 07:14 PM
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If anything maybe Borel was a little aggressive coming into the turn and left his horse with a lot to do in the lane.
I can't fault a guy for making his move at the top of the stretch with a horse that was in position to take the lead. When you force your competition to come up huge to win by a nose, then you did your job.
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05-24-2007, 01:57 PM
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i wanna TC winner as bad as any1 else, smarty jones was clearly the best that year and was that horse but unfortunately as we all know things didnt work out! i woulda loves to see SS win it as well but hes not the best of his bunch. on the other hand hes 1 helluva racehorse as weve all witnessed, i didnt even think hed fire in b -more after seein him washy be4 the race but he ran his race and calvin did nothing wrong, was just beaten by the better horse
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05-24-2007, 07:30 PM
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http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...ory?id=2880450
excellent article by randy moss, who puts to bed the issue of whether borel cost street sense the middle jewel, whether a horse who wins under a hand ride could go faster had he been given a few whacks, and that pesky 'pimlico has tight turns' myth...
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