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Originally Posted by stonegossard
The horse was poorly placed.
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With the way post positions were---and the way the race was run---it would have taken a pretty good ride for Sun King to get the kind of circle the field trip Zito seemed to want.
Breaking from post 4, he had three speeds to his inside, and Silver Wagon (who broke from post five) was running close to even with him for much of the early running---and not allowing Coa to angle out. He did shake clear of SW, but by the time he did, he had a ways to go to get outside and circle the field. He could have made an effort to split horses---but that wasn't going to be an easy task either....he basically did what comes to natural to him, and dive inside where he knew he could get room.
If the track was fair to all paths---I'd agree that he rode as well a race as could have been expected---but, to angle down on what appeared to be deeper footing inside, with a horse who notoriously has some hang to his run through the late stages....it wasn't a recipe for victory.