Garret Gomez sucks
 

Sorry, just letting off a little steam, but I'd like someone to find me three worse rides in one day than his gems on Wait a While, Dream Rush and Hard Spun today.

Jon Court in the 6th at Hollywood. Has an easy winner and smacks the shiat out of the horse in deep stretch, resulting in a DQ. Thanks Jon! That hurt!

What did he do wrong on Dream Rush? IMO there was no scenario he could have won the 5 horse turf race and personally thought that Hard Spun should have skipped the race.

agree on Dream Rush,

but was up with the stranglehold on Hard Spun?

GG might be, but tell me about Hard Spun, what are we to do with this colt?? what is his style ?? a stocker? or a pace setter? either way, better horses ran him down.. you saw !!

agreed!

He just did what everyone complained Pino did not do

How about Johnny V though??? He's the guy that's been riding bad?!..??

..imo, Hard Spun performed the way he did in spite of the connections. That horse has nothing left....and today was worth a ton of $$$ to them because of the Darley deal....there is no excuse for the way this horse was worked through this whole process....jmo

Cut him back to 8-9 furlongs, and there isn't anyone beating him...IMO

Chuck,

question about all of this...... if you have a horse that goes through the jockey situation that HS did after Rags to Riches entered do you have reservations....I guess what I'm asking is once you take Pino off, then replace with Gomez, and then Gomez wants off because Rags is now entered, are there any concerns about that? I don't know, that whole thing would just make me uneasy....

He strangles the **** out of Wait a While behind a crawling leader, then doesn't do **** to slow Dream Rush down on the front end? That's not bogus to you? And he had Hard Spun all over the f'ing track, man.

I agree completely. He sucked on Derby Day, and he sucked today (and I too am letting off some steam).

Wait a While doesn't win regardless.....no front end speed caused her to lose that race...

She easily could've been the one on the lead, but Garret decided to choke her and let My Typhoon get away.

well maybe..i can understand your point there.....

I think he was probably riding to instructions....I'm sure he would have rather won the race but it is a valid point that you want your jockey not thinking that he is not on the horse he thinks is best if they had a choice.

I didn't bet Wait a While, but everyone except GG could see they were crawling... Dream Rush completely alone on the front and the slowest he could go was 1.09?? And Hard Spun may have been cooked, but he rode him like he wished he was on the Filly. Wide, wider and widest!

that's what I'm saying......especially with the pending sale.....I just think that horse was put in bad spots all over the place...