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Originally Posted by miraja2
So War Emblem lost the '02 Belmont because he 'bounced?' Give me a break. The horse lost because he stumbled badly at the start and (more importantly) because he couldn't have won a 12f race even if they strapped a motor to his ass.
I don't generally put much stock in the whole theory of the "bounce." If people want to convince me that it works.....I am willing to entertain the idea....but they better come up with better examples than War Emblem in the Belmont.
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Not only did War Emblem put his nose to the deck at the start, he clearly had a panic attack from being behind horses on the backstretch. He KNEW that wasn't where he was 'supposed' to be and fought the jock strenuously to get to the front. However, I do think it was possible that if he had broken well and gotten the type of lead he had at Churchill, he would have had little trouble lasting out the distance.