Belmont Fractions

[Bobby Fischer]

It's a lot tougher to get a horse to relax and move later, than it is to "let 'em scoot on up"...

for some reason scooting up is en vouge

Gomez was screwing up a lot of races like that, (in spite of doing it well a couple times with Pioneerof the Nile)

Borel screwed up on it today.

I guess [relaxing the horse instead of scooting] is one of those subtle riding skills we don't even see on replays unless we anticipate the situations and look for that type of thing.

I think scooting up sucks - unless you have one rival up front that is posing a winning threat while getting an uncontested breather