Ortiz Bros

[jms62]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Not sure what you want the tracks to do. Ban them from riding in the same race? Even if there were validity to what you're very clearly suggesting, it would be an extremely difficult thing to prove.

I wouldn't put anything past anyone at the racetrack, but IMO the only reason we might think we see a pattern is because they have the same last name. Guys give questionable rides every single day, but they don't have the same last name as each other, so it doesn't register in our minds as a trend.

Cornelio Velasquez has been riding at almost a criminally incompetent level for most of this year and I'm way more concerned about that than making it so two terrific jockeys can't ride against each other because of conjecture.

I did some queries and I think you are right. They faced each other 71 times last year when one was Odds on. 16 Times the Odds On finished 2nd and only 5 time The Longer Ortiz won (3 times in the last month though). Nothing amiss here.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by jms62

I did some queries and I think you are right. They faced each other 71 times last year when one was Odds on. 16 Times the Odds On finished 2nd and only 5 time The Longer Ortiz won (3 times in the last month though). Nothing amiss here.

And two of those happened yesterday with the odds-on favorite running horribly. Bankers Holiday had no excuse whatsoever when he took dead aim at the 1/4 pole on the pacesetters and hung like a chandelier, and Behrnik's Bank was a shadow of herself given what we had previously seen at Penn National.