Dedumbeaux's Ride

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

The connections knew there was something wrong with the horse going into the race. Everyone knew. The horse had a bad quarter crack. With a bad quarter crack like that, you don't know for sure if it will bother the horse until the horse is all-out in a race. The horse galloped well all week and he worked fine too. But that's not the same as running in a race.

Even if Desormeuax couldn't feel that the horse was sore in the race, he knew that there was obviously something wrong because the horse wasn't firing. He would have had to have been out of his mind to keep riding the horse in that situation. The horse is too valuable. Desormeaux absolutely did the right thing.

so only valuable horses should be pulled up? all i'm saying is if its good for the horse then why not do it all the time?

I just watched the 10th at Monmouth and 3 horses finished slowly between 20 to 35 lengths behind the winner. i'm sure those horses might have some issues as well.

I have listened to all this quarter crack stuff and I hear many say that what he had is common. i don't know really, it didn't look good to me the photo that was shown in DRF. you listen to the trainer say it was not an issue, you saw he had a decent work. its all guesswork really though.