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Originally Posted by NTamm1215

I thought Mike Smith's comment about Stardom Bound's performance was rich:

"I tried to get her to settle,” said Stardom Bound’s regular rider, Mike Smith, who flew in from California for the mount. “If I had let her go on, she probably would have gotten second, but it would have been very grueling for her coming off the layoff. She’ll improve from this race.”

If he had allowed her to make the middle move that he held her back from she would have run 2nd?

NT

I heard what he had said, and he was misquoted. He said he could have gone from last to second on the backstretch, but that would have been asking too much of her coming off the layoff.