Jara on thin ice with Al Maktoum

[Linny]

GRITS, I am defending Jara. The kid did what any good rider does, he evaluates the race at the top of the lane. From his vantage he has to assume that DC is the main threat. He doesn't know the colt has nothing. He has to peek back to be sure that DC is NOT rolling up into the race. If he were, Invasor might have been caught.
Of course they are "what-ifs" but covering your bases (with DC) while asking your horse to pass the rival at hand (PT) is good race riding sense. I often critisize jocks for riding too many horses and not their own. That's said, when there appears 9at least going in) that there is one horse that you have to beat, you must know where he is, at all times.
Do you think Cauthen wasn't mindful of where Alydar was every time? Do you think that all those jocks riding against Forego or Secretariat were unconcerned about those two's whereabouts? NOPE.