How often has Pino ridden at Belmont? Big Sandy is a course apart and out of towners can get fooled by the length of the turns into moving prematurely. Since Pino already has one possible misjudgment of this sort on this horse hanging over him, a switch to a jock with more experience on the course might have been seemed to be the one small edge that could put them in winner's circle. Hard Spun doesn't have his classic win yet.
|