King's Drama

Originally Posted by Getaway

Just got this off DRF:

Jockey Edgar Prado suddenly eased 9-5 favorite King's Drama, who was chasing the pace, and pulled him to the outside, impeding Einstein.

"He took a couple of bad steps on the backstretch and didn't feel right," said Prado. "Hopefully it's nothing major. It doesn't seem like anything's broken."

Prado seems to be a very concerned/cautious jockey. I remember being at Monmouth a month or two after Barbaro was injured; he had the favorite in a stakes race on the turf and he got 10-20 yards out of the gate and pulled the horse up.( was a Dynaformer too !) Horse didnot appear injured at all too. Noticed it on a few other occasions too, but he is such an excellent rider and class individual, that I would never question his judgement. Just an observation.