KNS: #2, Tampa 4th Friday

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Coming into the 2nd turn and then into the 2nd turn the 7 horse cleared KNS who was rail all the way. Daylight was present to the outside but then closed. imo there was plenty of time to leave the rail but KNS stayed...

Help me here? I know we of course like to save ground but the horse a ton left. No move to the outside on the turn because it was likely horses would tire and an opening was certain to occur?

So much left is the only reason I am asking.

Help me here. Not meaning to 2nd guess, just need some reasoning.
I thought the trip was great and when I watched the replay I was thinking there is the opening... perfect timing... but "we" stayed rail. Then of course it got very tough after that. But a wonderful finish.

You don't move a horse outside into or while in a turn when you've "got" horse under you and you've been saving ground with intent. The reasoning is that the tiring horse(s) ahead of you will bear out OFF THE TURN as they tire and open the rail where you've been in the catbird seat because you have horse.

The tiring horse in front of KNS and Rosie couldn't even make it to the top of the stretch before tiring and started to back up surprisingly early. Especially given the fractions to three-quarters. Rosemary had no choice but to wait until a seam developed and hope that there wasn't too much ground to make up once in the open. Unfortunately, there was..

But you don't 'give up' your rail position because you think 'there may be trouble later'... It's easy to say "that was the place to move" after the fact when you know what happened a quarter of a mile later..