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Originally Posted by shoeless
How about when a jockey gets out on the front end and is able to slow the fractions down so the horse is able to wire the field.Is the jockey controlling the race then?
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Absolutely not. The jockey is not going to get out in front unless he has a fast front running horse and is not going to be able to set slow fractions unless there is no horse willing to pass him.
The horse runs the race and the pace depends mostly upon the matchup of the horses in the race. Obviously, some jockeys are much better than others, but even they can't make a slow horse go fast and very rarely have any success trying to change the running style of the horse.
Dick