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![]() Is this Miller being a sore loser or does he have a point? IMO the horse was dead tired and was stopping badly. Anyone else have an opinion?
http://www.drf.com/news/premium/big-...rs-cup-classic Here is the important stuff from the article..... The incident with Wicked Strong, and the resulting injury to jockey Rajiv Maragh, was the most noticeable incident in the strangely run race. But Miller was left puzzled about Ortiz’s handling of Big Cazanova, believing the rider simply gave up on the horse at the quarter pole. “We weren’t happy with the effort of the rider in New York,” Miller said. “I called the stewards, and Ortiz told them the horse was lugging out. But I didn’t see that at all. It was all very strange. Thank God the horse is good.” |
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It was odd to say the least. I thought he was being eased until the horse I saw the chart.
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![]() Hmmm. The first two times horses came at him he seemed to
spurt away, but the last time nothing. Didn't look like the jockey did anything to try and keep him going though. |
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It's not unusual for a jockey to wrap up on a horse after the horse starts tiring, but it's very unusual to see a jock wrap up on a horse before the horse starts tiring, which looked like the case in this race. The only thing I can think of is that the horse simply didn't feel right to the rider, yet all I heard the rider say was that the horse was getting out a little. Maybe he meant that the horse didn't feel right and that was just a nice way of saying that. I don't know. |
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![]() Ortiz has had a few head scratchers the past few weeks, last Friday he had a train wreck of a ride on Bernie the maestro.
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![]() Both Ortiz brothers tend to give strange rides in between all their good ones...but it could just be inexperience.
Or it could be something else. I don't know. |
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![]() If the stewards took no action on Jose Ortiz' ride on Gem City Gal back in June, which I was certainly not the only one to question what he was doing on that horse but it certainly wasn't trying to win the race, I can't imagine they will take action on this.
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I never saw the Gem City Gal race, but I imagine it was similar to those. |
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