Gitano Hernando

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Originally Posted by LARHAGE

How did Fallon outride Gomez? Colonel John is not a horse that can quicken as well as Gitano H did, Colonel John was even with the other horse and simply couldn't quicken with him, how is that Gomez fault? Is he supposed to jump off and run himself? Give the other horse some credit, he dug in and won, why must there always be some jockeys fault if their horse isn't fast enough?

I was referring to very minute differences in winning races, it wasn't a bad ride by Gomez, he probably wanted to stay out of trouble based on what happened to C John in his last race; however in this context of comparing the 2 rides Fallon rode the better race. He saved ground and was able to split horses where Gomez chose to take an outer path. This was the difference as it looked liked Fallon just had abit more horse at the end.