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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
What????
Wait a While stalked a crawling pace and was dreadful ( I bet her career is over ). Dream Rush ran well in hand and collapsed.....looking like the distance got her. Both these horses were 3:5 for God's sakes. Not Gomez's fault at all that they lost......just as he wouldn't have deserved any credit had they won.
Now, on Hard Spun.....while the tactics were probably foolish, and his best chance ( not that he had any ) was perhaps to try and bottom out the field, do you honestly think Gomez made the decision to ride him that way? Highly unlikely.
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I don't think it was Gomez' decision to ride that way. They replaced one rider already because they thought he moved too early. This was the plan going in....to wait and wait and wait. I knew he had no chance to win when I saw how close Curlin and Rags were to him down the backstretch. I said then that I thought Pino made the right move to try and take the race at the point that he did. That horse had no chance of outrunning them down the lane so his only chance would have been opening up as much as he could.
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06-10-2007, 01:39 AM
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