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09-20-2009, 08:26 PM
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Golden Gate Fields - Sun Race 6
Crazy, crazy finish in Race 6 at GGF this afternoon. Can't find the video replay right now but if someone can locate and post it is definitely worth a view. Jock, David Lopez, suffered a concusion. Horse apparently OK.
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09-21-2009, 11:53 AM
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David said he felt like a truck hit him in the face, in the replay you can see him get up and stumble around but he ended up being taken off in the ambulance - he's hurting and a bit banged up but he'll be ok.
Because the accident happened at the finish line, the winners circle photo had to be taken facing the grandstands (normally it's taken facing the track). They haven't taken photos with the grandstands in the background in years - in the 40's and 50's the grandstands were full of people dressed up in their finest and it looked impressive, now it looks empty and you see maybe 20 people behind you, several of which are toothless degenerates with their fly unzipped... not exactly the photo you want to hang on your office wall 
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche on Handicapping
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09-21-2009, 12:27 PM
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I watched a race on Friday where he let Baze get a 23 opening quarter for a 6 furlong race.
The guy is horrible.
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09-21-2009, 12:40 PM
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The horse is on the wrong lead, which means it's head is more towards the stands, and its ass is more towards the rail than straight, and the idiot insists on repeatedly sticking it righty, while it clearly does not want to go towards the rail. It's not clear whether it finally switches leads just before hitting the rail -- if it does, it's not a full change. So, when it finally straightens out, given the righty pressure, it immediately goes straight into and through the rail.
Why is this jock riding? 1st time on a horse?
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09-21-2009, 01:15 PM
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David is actually one of the better jocks in the northern California riders colony - he does his fair share of bad rides, like all jocks, and I'm hopeful he'll learn a lesson from this ride.
If we all expected each jockey to ride a well-ridden race each and every race, we'd end up with the horses running around the track bareback. It's easy to criticize the jockeys but other than Honu, how many folks on this site would get on a horse running 35-40 MPH with a dozen other horses around them and ride their horse well? How many of us even do our own job well 100% of the time? It's easy for handicappers to criticize the jocks, it seems to be more difficult to show concern for a guy who had his bell rung. David is a nice guy, show a little concern.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche on Handicapping
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09-21-2009, 01:45 PM
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Surely, you're joking. I don't need to ride a horse to KNOW, from watching a ton of races, when a jockey ****s up. I'm tired of all this 'only the insiders really know the truth' stuff that always seems to be going around the backstretch.
99.999999% of all jocks out there, and this is not a high IQ pool we're dealing with, know enough not to repeatedly stick that horse righty. Your guy got exactly what he deserved. Luckily, he didn't take others with him. An analogy would be someone who hits the gas when approaching a red light. Would you make excuses for him when he rear ends a stopped car? He needs his license pulled for a while until he demonstrates that he's not retarded. Seriously. He's a menace, after that ride.
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