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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
show me another instance where he or any other rider pulls up their horse in the stretch and jumps off at the wire, not because there was any indication of anything wrong, merely because there was no response, then i'll believe it was for the horses best interest. if this is the way to go then it should happen about once per race.
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The connections knew there was something wrong with the horse going into the race. Everyone knew. The horse had a bad quarter crack. With a bad quarter crack like that, you don't know for sure if it will bother the horse until the horse is all-out in a race. The horse galloped well all week and he worked fine too. But that's not the same as running in a race.
Even if Desormeuax couldn't feel that the horse was sore in the race, he knew that there was obviously something wrong because the horse wasn't firing. He would have had to have been out of his mind to keep riding the horse in that situation. The horse is too valuable. Desormeaux absolutely did the right thing.