Mott playing games with us?

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by To_Close_to_call

Just a simple question from a rather new guy to the sport.
Does anyone think that pyro might have been held up a little on purpose, knowing that he did not need to push at all to make the field of 20 ,and possibly saving his best for may 3rd? I watched his last race and I know this was defintly not the Pyro of several weeks ago. I am fairly new to the game guys and gals so please forgive the newby questions!

He obviously didn't need to win, so there was no use in going all out on him once it became clear he wasn't going to run a lick.

However, I can't imagine he got anything out of it -- so while Bridgmohan didn't need to have the horse use everything up trying to win, it wouldn't make much sense to hold him back to the point where he's not getting anything out of it anyway. It that were the case, they may as well just have trained him up to the Derby and gotten more out of it.

So my humble opinion, is that I highly doubt that was the original plan, but it turned out that the rider didn't carry on with him once it was obvious that he was going nowhere fast.