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Originally Posted by MaTH716
It is all about the horse. Who knows you might get a guy replacing Nak riding for a trainer for the first time. You would think the jock would do anything he could to start riding for Oneill or Dollasce etc. Plus I also think that you might get better odds on the horse if say Matt Garcia was on instead of Nak. I think BTW says it all the time, the jock is not as important as alot of people make them out to be.
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I disagree with "the jock is not important"....while it is certainly true that a good jock cannot make a bad horse perform any better than it's talent will allow....but a solid jock replacing a less skilled one on a solid horse may make the difference between 1st, 2nd or 3rd.....Garcia today had a horse predicted to be competitive ES in the 8th at the Big A....Cotto didn't take or didn't have the advantage of GoGo Shoot's ES shown again today 12/12/07 (8).
Garcia stayed clear of Ramon and Maragh, the other jocks busy eliminating two other contenders in the race one by check the other by foul in the top of the stretch and the ES advantage does the rest....If Ramon doesn't come over on Hill the race might have been slightly different but Garcia rode the winner today and deserves the credit for allowing the horse to perform....some call it racing luck but it certainly is not totally random or we are all wasting our time playing the inner in the winter.....bias sure random no!!