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Old 05-07-2013, 11:15 AM
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http://www.drf.com/news/preakness-st...-consideration

just visited drf, and saw this update, which includes brown discussing the trip.
Good article.
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Old 05-07-2013, 12:37 PM
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Good article.
That hardly means that Brown was happy with the ride. It just means that he took the high road and didn't want to criticize his jock in the media. One of my trainers got a horrible ride in a stakes race about 10 years ago. The horse was a come-from-behinder who was sitting in a good spot (laying 3rd a couple lengths back going down the backstretch), when the jock inexplicably decided to move up and engage the leaders at the half-mile pole. In the newspaper interviews, the trainer took the blame himself saying he had the horse "too fresh". I talked to the trainer two days later and asked him about the ride. He told me he thought the ride was terrible. I asked him why he didn't just come out and say it in the interview. He said he simply didn't want to criticize the jockey publicly.

I don't know Chad Brown so I can't ask him what he thought of the ride. I don't claim to know whether he is mad about the ride. But I can guarantee you that he knows that the horse would have finished closer with a more patient ride. That is pretty obvious even from his reserved comment, "The mile and a quarter is a different animal. There’s running on a sloppy track and making a move and running on a sloppy track at a mile and a quarter – it’s a long way to go." He was being diplomatic.

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Old 05-07-2013, 02:07 PM
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That hardly means that Brown was happy with the ride. It just means that he took the high road and didn't want to criticize his jock in the media. One of my trainers got a horrible ride in a stakes race about 10 years ago. The horse was a come-from-behinder who was sitting in a good spot (laying 3rd a couple lengths back going down the backstretch), when the jock inexplicably decided to move up and engage the leaders at the half-mile pole. In the newspaper interviews, the trainer took the blame himself saying he had the horse "too fresh". I talked to the trainer two days later and asked him about the ride. He told me he thought the ride was terrible. I asked him why he didn't just come out and say it in the interview. He said he simply didn't want to criticize the jockey publicly.

I don't know Chad Brown so I can't ask him what he thought of the ride. I don't claim to know whether he is mad about the ride. But I can guarantee you that he knows that the horse would have finished closer with a more patient ride. That is pretty obvious even from his reserved comment, "The mile and a quarter is a different animal. There’s running on a sloppy track and making a move and running on a sloppy track at a mile and a quarter – it’s a long way to go." He was being diplomatic.
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