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Originally Posted by moodwalker
I think there's a difference between knowing what you are doing at Delaware Park on a Tuesday and on the first Saturday in May after you have given about 200 interviews and brought all your friends and family there with every last one of them believing you will win.
If Hard Spun does exactly what I think he will do, Jones and Pino won't be the first to succumb to it or the last. Hard Spun is no Smarty Jones.
I think Elliot could have ridden him backwards and that horse would have done the exact thing he did.
Without a doubt, I would send him to the front and pray. You think Jones and Pino are just sitting there saying, "man, we got this. we know exactly what we are doing?"
The Derby is a powerful animal...and it has made more than a few trainers and jockeys do things differently than they normally would.
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This I agree with; however the horse rated kindly in the Lanes End off a bullet work without much work from Pino.
Jones is a very sharp trainer and Pino is a competent jock. I'd rather have him on there than someone new.