Instead of the complaining and "wanting a fair shake" Wouldn't it have been much better to hear something informed and sensible from Jones?......like the following....
'I take full blame for Hard Spun running off the board. Not because of any mistake I made in training, but because I was so caught up in what was going on with my own horses, that I didn't realize until after the fact that the inside path of the racetrack seemed to offer better footing, and the speed was really carrying.'
'You know, my horse had won all four of his career races in wire-to-wire fashion coming into the race. I really wanted to take him off-the-pace today, make him show us a new dimension and really get something out of this race.'
'If I had known what was happening on the track, I would have instructed my rider to use a little more of our horses natural speed.'
'You know, earlier on in the card, at the same distance as our race, a horse named Uptothesky set fractions of 23.67 and 47.27 and still went wire-to-wire against bottom level, N2L claimers. That horse had run Beyers of 49 and 20 in his last two starts! And, it's not like he's a run-off speed horse, in fact, he's laid 4th in four of his last five races...all of which in route races'
'Meanwhile, Our horse was rating in 5th place off of fractions of 23.68 and 47.90! That 23/1 shot who won, not only was the track playing kind to him, but he was unchallenged and going slower than bottom level, N2L claimers, at the same distance earlier on in the card.'
'We beat the winner by 9 lengths one month prior. He will never beat us again. I picked the wrong race to expieriment and I should have been paying more attention to the races run earlier in the day.'
OK, I'm asking way too much.
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