What was up with Quality Road's braid beed?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by scat daddy

I thought Johnny V. was to focused on looking around for Blame rather run his race. Continual looking underneath both arms starting into the far turn and continuing into deep stretch. He caught Blame around the turn on the inside with his first glance back, looked back inside mid stretch, and Blame had positioned himself to the outside for his run. Blame comes to him quickly and Johnny reacts way to late and is only able to whip QR at the base of the neck in tight. Is QR better??? or is Johnny V. to Blame?

Scat Out (Beat reporter for trying find out how QR lost?)

Stop it. QR quit and Blame didn't. Simple as that.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

What about the race Musket Man ran?

He was really taken out of his game - and rushed the whole way - had to race wider on both turns than QR did and still managed to finish as well as a perfect trip QR.

Before looking at any figures - I was befuddled by how well MM ran. If Haynesfield and QR hook up early in a pace battle .. and Musket Man is in the garden spot a few lengths off of it with first run on Blame .. than it's he and Blame who are in a thriller and QR winds up a very soundly beaten 3rd.

Instead - Quality Road ended up with the candy trip - and Musket Man, a horse who doesn't have a ton of natural speed is having his ears ridden off while two paths wider through the first turn, just to put whatever kind of minimal early pressure on QR that he could ... cause Ramon Dominguez opted to apply none on Haynesfield.

QR was clearly 3rd best today IMO.

[herkhorse]

A closer inspection reveals it was a tiny, but very heavy weight.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

It's amazing that Velazquez didn't say anything about the braid bead in the post race ...

Quality Road ran six furlongs in 1:11.92 and appeared to be holding Musket Man and Haynesfield at bay. But coming into the stretch, Velazquez said he was “in trouble” because he felt Quality Road was “just going through the motions.”

“He was never grabbing into the bridle, which was strange for him,” Velazquez said

While you were looking every which way but straight ahead .. your horse was getting slapped in the eye over and over by a plastic rock while going almost 40MPH.

[Revidere]

Didn't bother him in the Met

[randallscott35]

It only bothers him in routes. Obviously

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Revidere

Didn't bother him in the Met

That looks like a rubber band type tie instead of a big plastic ball - and his hair seems a lot shorter where it can't reach his eyeball there.

This silly stuff is an area where I shouldn't bother with - but again, maybe it wouldn't bother a horse to have a plastic ball hitting his eye over and over while he runs... but I know it would bother a human big time.

If that didn't bother Quality Road .. he ran an absolutely disgraceful race today - and Musket Man is without question the better horse off of that performance.

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

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If that didn't bother Quality Road .. he ran an absolutely disgraceful race today - and Musket Man is without question the better horse off of that performance.

Clearly, MM didn't get the best of trips, with Dominguez not keeping his end of the bargain. But how does MM's race in the Whitney, off the poor trip, fit in with his perfect trip in the Met? Wasn't he 'chasing' slow fractions today? And, wasn't he also the 3rd best horse going into the race?

Is it harder to chase slow fractions than to pass 2 horses that have set them?

[HaloWishingwell]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Stop it. QR quit and Blame didn't. Simple as that.

This is the one and only correct answer all others deserve beads alright.......anal ones