Dedumbeaux's Ride

[Scav]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I think analyzing the ride is much ado about nothing.

You knew going into the race the other jocks would have a bullseye on BB's back.

You knew going in that Da Tara was going to make the lead - and KJD isn't stupid enough to hook a 40/1 longshot with a horse that has rated kindly and unleashed huge turn moves in both of the first two legs of the triple crown.

You knew going in that the ruthless Eibar Coa was riding Tale Of Ekati - who has tactical speed, was drawn outside of BB, and was obviously going to race ride BB.

In hindsight - the best strategy would have been a seemingly incredibly insane strategy going into the race. It would be for Kent to pull a page from the Ramon Dominguez playbook and stay glued to the rail. The rail was good enough - see Forefathers performance - and as it turned out ... Da Tara was clearly more horse than Tale of Ekati, which means Big Brown would have got out of the box if he had more horse than ToE.

However, Big Brown had no horse so all this doesn't matter.

Forefathers performance was not because of a decent rail, he got an unbelievable trip and was the best horse number wise

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

1) Cornelio blocking Kent the length of the stretch on Friday, with the other half of the Mott entry. I've been betting over 30 years and I've seen a lot of stupid **** but a jock going out of his way to shut off a winning move by his entry mate is about as DUMBASS as it gets. YET, no comments on this forum.

Kent likes to get buried inside on the turf....it's his move and hardly Cornelio's fault. Out of curiousity.....did those two horses have the same owner? Didn't Cornelio finish second?

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Kent likes to get buried inside on the turf....it's his move and hardly Cornelio's fault. Out of curiousity.....did those two horses have the same owner? Didn't Cornelio finish second?

Kent likes to get buried inside? Who doesn't like to get buried inside?

Yeah, Cornelio finished 2nd but MOTT LOST a race he could've won.

Think he's happy? Assuming he's even aware of what happened?

[Handicappy]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Coa is being criticized her for herding Big Brown on the backstretch? Funny stuff. I guess the irony of this is being missed by most. Desormeaux has been herding and intimidating other riders with regularity. Apparently Coa shouldn't return the favor?

Thank You for this. KD is one of the worst. He cops an attitude and the next thing is he is taking your horse in the race 5 wide for no apparent reason. Of interest is he took an Alan Garcia horse, No Reply, wide on a far turn with a horse who had nothing left. The stewards get ear fulls regularly on why this guy isn't suspended off of some of his rides. Thanks for the comment. I agree totally.