CONTESSA: "..wanted to throw up"

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by ninetoone

Sometimes that hole opens up....so sometimes there is an upside. Just not on Thursday. Look at Steve's first post w/the Q&A. Dominguez made a split second judgement call based on something he saw & based on his instincts from thousands of rides. He just happenned to be wrong. So you can't say he made a move that had no upside 100% of the time, which is my point.

There was no upside because he was not going to save ground. There was no advantage to going inside.

An analogy would be if you tried to get into your house by climbing through a window when the front door was unlocked. Why would you go through the window if the front door was open? It doesn't matter whether you have a mishap climbing through the window or not. If you broke the window, the move would be stupid, but even if you didn't break the window the move would still be stupid. There is no advantage to trying to climb through the window when the front door is open.

By the same token, there is no advantage to trying to split horses when you can go to the outside. He wasn't saving any ground by going inside. They had already straightened away.