A question for the handicappers

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Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

First, horses listen only because they want to listen. They can be as obstreperous and resentful or as obliging and content as any person. They won't do, and you can't make them do, anything they don't want to do.

this is a point that I think MANY "handicappers" and certainly casual fans overlook.....they forget that that horse is not a machine, when jockeys are getting hammered for bad rides sometimes I think it is just that they might be on a difficult horse to ride (not always--I'm not forgiving some of the stupidity that goes on out there)....anyone who hasn't sat on a horse just can't grasp what it is like to finesse (because you can't out muscle) an 1100 pound animal.

as far as the quarter crack...they can be minor and they can be debilitating, from the reports out of BB's camp it would seem that his is minor.