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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
I have a problem with it. I don't care what the situation is. In almost all cases a move like this just doesn't work. There's always at least one horse that catches a break and gets a breather, not running when the others are, and is able to come on and last move those than ran before it. Happens daily in races all over the country, on all the different surfaces. You run too soon, you run out of gas sooner. Try this sometime. Get out there on a bike or in running shoes. One you experience it first hand, you'll finally understand.
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I hear ya.
Good luck finding a jockey who would have been able to ride him that way.
They'd have looked like Jose Santos when he would occasionally rate turf horses into submission with his head bobbing and the horse visually looking like he's being steadied and strangled into submission.