Spill @ Hollywood

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

No,he beat him back to the lane.It's not 50/50....Sorry,but Jara's horse isn't doing anything wrong when Gomez comes over.He is back in his lane.Gomez was wanting his lane.So,his story is gunna be that the horse went outside,but the fact is that he is back in that lane when he comes over.It's not 50/50.Gomez is simply wrong this time.He guessed that he could take that spot,but he was beaten to the spot.All video will show he was beaten to this spot,and takes it anyways.Granted,it happened quickly,and it's an accident,but it wasn't Garrett's spot to take.It was close,but the facts are this horse had beaten him to this spot.GO GO assumed it was open.It wasn't.The horse simply beat him to the spot.It's on him.Not Jara.Jara didn't push his horse into GO GO'S.GO GO PUSHED HIS OVER IN FRONT OF JARA'S.
This was a situation of the leading jockey assuming what the least popular jock at the meet was gunna do.Then he tried to blame it on that unpopular jock,but G comes over on him.He is in a lane when it's taken by Garrett.It's really not a close call.It's a foul caused by an assumption.It's a bit of over-aggressive risk taking,and it's the reason those horses went down.

I'm not blaming Jara. . . His mount was zig-zagging all over the place while he was trying to switch leads (i think). . . He didn't really have much control over his horse which isn't really his fault because the horse was so green. . . But when a horse is running erratically like that I think it's hard to blame another jock if he runs in to him. . . If Gomez just swings wide and knocks another horse over who's travelling completely straight in his lane that's one thing, but he was trying to predict what an unruly animal was going to do at 30 mph and guessed wrong. . . but what was he supposed to do? He had horse and a chance to win so he went for what looked like an open seam. He wasn't pulling a Coa or anything. . . Plus, because of the way Jara's horse was running you could argue that he wasn't running in an established lane. . . Also, from what I could see, Jara's mount may have gotten spooked a bit by the contact and overreacted a little bit. . . A more experienced runner may not have gone down in that situation but you never know. . . Not that that really matters now- just an observation. . .

[The Bid]

I didnt even see the race but Im sure Jara flopping around on top like he usually does didnt help matters. If I racereplay Ill be jockey bashing the rest of the night. He probably had his horse off balance, all over the track, couldnt pick the horse up, Im getting mad just thinking about him.

On another jockey bashing note Rene Douglas aboard Prom Shoes today was pretty brutal. He ducked to the rail and followed the only horse in the race that figured to back up right into his face. Nice move RD.