Dominguez

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Originally Posted by the_fat_man

If by 'Wednesday', you mean the 11th, and Pu Dew, I can't tell what he did wrong.

As for today's 1st: is it his fault, or the stewards, that Maragh, in the 3 path, decides to come in a path going into the turn, and squeezes him? This happens a few times a day, at every track, and the stewards, at some point, will realize that it's as dangerous as anything else that can happen on the track and will start fining jocks for not keeping a straight path entering the turn. Someday, it just might happen. There were a couple of blatant cases of this (squeezes into the rail on the turn) at TAM last week; I mean, these were so ****in brutal that it's a wonder the horse/jock didn't go down; and the stewards did **** about it. However, it's good to know that should a jock (other than Castellano or Sutherland) drift a half lane or so in the stretch, the stewards will be there for the takedown.

You take a real risk jamming horses between horses in traffic, especially when you are on super logical horses that don't need to get lucky to win. Dominguez does this too often in my opinion. He did it with PU Dew and never was clear to be able to run. I have no idea what his plan was in today's opener. The winner was the lone speed, but he had the speed to stay close, yet left unaggressively and literally begged the others to shut him off. They obliged. Now, he may not have had any horse anyway, but I still thought it was a surprisingly amateurish ride.

Don't get me wrong, Dominguez is a very good rider, not as good as some people think, but overall he is very smart and capable. But, getting overexcited by his performance at Aqueduct, where he gets his choice of mounts in basically every race, and the overall colony isn't great, is to not see the whole picture. Sometimes he makes the mistake of riding overconfidently and gets into unnecessary jackpots.