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Originally Posted by hockey2315
Like Jim said- he was sitting about sixth or seventh on the rail for most of the race then at the turn got passed by a few horses and was boxed in. . . By the time he found room he had a lot of ground to make up. . . So Samyn tries to swing wide- oops, no room. . . then he tries to come up the rail- nope, and he finally angles Bold Hawk away from the rail for clear running room with virtually no time left to make up the lost ground. . . This horse need to make an outside move to really get going and Samyn never gave him a chance to do that until it was much too late. . .
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I just took a long look at the replay, trying to reconcile what I saw with my attached chart of the race. WHile, outside is the best place to be coming home on the turf, I think that Samyn did the best he could in the stretch under the circumstances. There was no way he was getting outside from where he entered the stretch ---there was a wall of horses there. Where he possibly blew the race was on the turn, when the 11 blew by him and he was stuck behind a horse that was backing up on the rail and had to then follow the 11, who got the garden trip up the rail entering and to the wire. This is typical Samyn chickenshit riding: the inside on the turn on the turf is even more alien to him than it is to Johnny V. Then again, a good deal of this is racing luck.
This is what sucks about the game (especially on the turf): you bet with conviction against the even money shot, getting more than fair odds, and can't even get a clear run in the race.