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11-25-2007, 08:24 AM
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11-25-2007, 09:35 AM
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I think Garcia did a bad job of settling the horse after the first turn.
He was taken a little wide by Castellano(on the 2 springs road), but then you see some stop-and-go action which was not very smooth and actually caused his horse to clip heels with Atoned. I like his choice to stay off the pace. No way Big Truck competes at 9 furlongs as the pacesetter. Once he got the horse to settle, he momentarily had a decent trip, and he was actually given the opportunity to come on even terms entering the far turn. Everything went his way as far as the pace. He just had a terrible setup being locked in behind Atoned ,Springs Road , and inside of Trust N Dustan. When the pace slowed - everyone got on even terms... Not a whole lot Garcia could have done. Maybe if he "sensed" the traffic jam and went very wide at the end of the backstretch... Thats asking a lot of any jockey.
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11-24-2007, 07:17 PM
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Alan Garcia is a terrible rider.
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11-24-2007, 09:39 PM
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Which part didn't you understand? I said it last year about the flavor of the month of that time, Fernando Jara, and people wanted to argue with me. Alan Garcia has a great agent and is proving the point that most people have no idea what constitutes a good rider. Garcia loses with more horses that should win than any rider I have seen in my lifetime. Any imbecile could win with the horses he wins on....but most would win with more than a few he loses on.
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11-25-2007, 12:33 AM
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11-25-2007, 04:56 AM
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if alan garcia is terrible then about 90% of the jocks riding at aqueduct should be put in prison and maybe 10% would be considered good. all jocks give crappy rides at times, but i would say garcia rides his share of some nice priced winners not just favorites that almost any of them can win with
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11-24-2007, 10:01 PM
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11-24-2007, 10:05 PM
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It's interesting you say that. I remember him starting out absolutely horrendously last winter and being shocked at what a poor rider he was. I noticed that every horse he rode, speed or no speed, he was pumping away out of the gate. I even asked another rider if this sort of style was at all productive ( not even mentioning specifically who I was talking about ). Then, suddenly, he started winning. Then Jara and Kiaran seemed to split when Jara got a new agent ( I wonder why ) and suddenly he was the new flavor of the month. He'll be gone in a couple of years......and a new thorn in my side will emerge.
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11-25-2007, 04:16 PM
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Alan Garcia is a special case. He already seems to be among the top two dozen jockeys in America in very few years of competition. This year, Garcia rode Lahudood to victory in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl at Belmont and the $2 million BC Filly and Mare turf at Monmouth. He rode Shakis to a Grade 2 win in the Bernard Baruch at Saratoga; Dance Away Capote to a Grade 3 score in the Noble Damsel; Makderah to win the Grade 2 New York BC Handicap; and Flashy Bull to win the Grade 3 William D. Schaefer Handicap on the Preakness undercard. Most of those victories were for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who similarly sponsored Fernando Jara to major successes aboard 2006 Horse of the Year Invasor. While Jara lost his confidence and slipped out of the limelight in 2007, Garcia seems more polished.
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