Relaxed Gesture

Danzig · #1 08-12-2006, 07:08 PM

wow....just read it. shame i missed the ride itself, i guess it was something to see. unless of course you were the owner/trainer or someone with him in the exacta!

#2 08-12-2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig188

wow....just read it. shame i missed the ride itself, i guess it was something to see. unless of course you were the owner/trainer or someone with him in the exacta!

Or if you had a 5 dollar pik-4 that you would have had. You really have to see this ride to get the full effect. It was even worse than the chart call. Funny thing is that noone else who ever rode her had a problem with her, horses usually don't get "rank" at that age after that many starts.
I watched it with a group of guys and many had the horse going in the pik-4. The profanity started early on, got steadily worse, and by the time they hit the stretch I was hearing words that even I don't use. You really need to see the replay to understand just how awful it was.

Danzig · #3 08-12-2006, 07:14 PM

just now at nyra dot com to watch

Danzig · #4 08-12-2006, 07:19 PM

some horse to come back and try at the end like that after that ride. yikes.

Rupert Pupkin · #5 08-12-2006, 07:42 PM

I disagree with you guys about Desmormeaux's ride. He probably did not particularly want to be on the lead to begin with but the pace was very slow and he ended up on the lead as they passed the stands the first time. Then when Ramazutti decided that he was going to challenge RG, Desormeaux took back and let Ramazutti go. That's exactly what he should have done. He didn't want to be head and head with Ramazutti. The clubhouse turn is certainly not too late in the race to take back.

I actually became somewhat of a Jose Valdivia fan for doing that exact thing. He was on a horse that I bet in a 1 1/2 mile race at Santa Anita. He was on the lead going into the clubhouse turn when another horse challenged him. The last thing I wanted him to do was go haed and head with that horse. Anyway, Jose knew it was a long race and he was smart enough to take back and let the other horse go. Jose ended up winning the race. The thing that won the race for him was taking back when that other horse challenged him. I think he would have been dead if he went head and head with that horse.

Anyway, it obviously was not good when Kent got in a little tight at the 3/8 pole, but what can you do. That happens sometimes when you're in traffic. I don't think he had much horse any way. I don't think he would have won the race no matter what he would have done.

Danzig · #6 08-12-2006, 09:34 PM

i think he waited too long to pull him back, going by the finish line the first time round and then pulls him back?? hell, the horse probably thought the race was over and then wondered why they went all the way around again instead of pulling up on the back side!

#7 08-12-2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig188

i think he waited too long to pull him back, going by the finish line the first time round and then pulls him back?? hell, the horse probably thought the race was over and then wondered why they went all the way around again instead of pulling up on the back side!

Rup you can't tell a horse to go, then tell him don't go, then tell him go again unless he or she has a superior mind and lots of heart. Very few horses meet those parameters.

31lengths · #8 08-12-2006, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig188

i think he waited too long to pull him back, going by the finish line the first time round and then pulls him back?? hell, the horse probably thought the race was over and then wondered why they went all the way around again instead of pulling up on the back side!

Exactly how I felt.

GPK · #9 08-13-2006, 07:15 AM

worst ride of the day...only had Go Deputy in that race as part of my pick 4 only to lose with EC singled in the last leg. Salty about not having win $$ on Go Deputy...absolute gift at 6-1.