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Originally Posted by CSC
I mentioned this yesterday, but here is a very good example of a subtle but very good ride well I think it was a great ride infact, Migliore on Mucho Macho at Aqueduct in the 3rd. Very simuliar circumstances to the CD race discussed here but very different results.
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Actually, I think the Mig moved too soon on that horse. He shook him up late turn, was sticking just before he entered, and the horse took a while to change leads. The horse was very hard used.
The problem with premature moves (these jocks love to shake the horses up on the turn) is two fold:
1) all the bush dirt tracks in this country where speed holds ridiculously well (so taking the lead prematurely doesn't matter); so just about everyone rides like Mike Luzzi.
2) it doesn't cost the jockeys anything as the horses are doing all the work. If you're a cyclist, for example, and you bid prematurely, the peloton makes you pay for it (it ****in hurts!!).
These jocks just don't get it: if you attack a still strong leader (i.e. prematurely) even if you get by at some point, you're vulnerable to a later move. Going after the leader in the stretch means the horse should be at least a bit more tired and you have a better chance of going by and NOT losing 2nd. If you can't go by late then you probably wouldn't have gone by with an earlier bid.
This is NOT terribly abstruse. Hard to believe that trainers/owners repeatedly stand for this ****.