08-01 Playaround

[pointman]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

I initially thought that after getting a perfect inside trip on the bacstretch, after the rank run around the 1st turn, that she was blocked in the stretch run behind horses. But the headon shows there was plenty of room and I have to wonder why Leparoux didn't get into her a bit. Maybe he was afraid to push her given what he experienced earlier.

Actually, I initially thought the same thing but just looked at the headon as well, it looks like he had room up the rail and brings the horse in behind others but a hole was there, on the headon the horse has run late which she probably did on her own and goes to the rail and gallops out past the field. I honestly wonder what he was thinking in the stretch there, I am guessing you are right he was afraid to push her. If he goes up the rail it looks like the horse had the run to win the race. There just didn't seem to be any plan there.