Stephen Foster H. - Grade: 1 POST

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Secretariat

when PP returned his first race back he was rank and ran on the lead, a style he was not familiar with, he always closed within the last 100 yards. he was taken to the front by bailey for some reason. CN gave him a lot of weight as i recall.
further at 10f CN didn't even get close to him in the PC

PP got a terrible ride that day. He wasn't rank. It was jockey error. It was Mike Smith who rode him that day. As Secretatriat said, PP liked to come from well off the pace, but that day he was battling it out on the lead with two other horses. There were three of them going head and head. Smith ackonwledged that he gave a bad ride and blew it.