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Tim Y · 10-05-2009, 08:04 PM

Horses run and horses win races. ANY competent jockey has less than 10% effect on the outcome when ridden well, even the best of them: a Pincay, Bailey or currently Ramon Dominguez etc.

Horses can be disastrously handled by a poor ride: getting used up, wide, trapped in tight, moved too early.... a myriad of reasons as, for example the WORST ride in a major contest I ever saw: Forty Niner's Breeder's Cup Classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oksnqhosh8

A known front running, classic distanced horse, this one was a prompter to Winning Colors in the Derby, right on the pace in the Preakness, was the pace in beating Strike the Gold in both the Haskell and the Travers. NOTHING on that track (Churchill Downs) moved up from anything inside the three path all day (rail trips by every race, save Gulch, proved to be costly) so Krone takes this one back, goes RIGHT ON the rail letting the rival he looked in the eye in his Summer triumphs go and then tried to make a single run after strangling the competitiveness out of this very good three year old.

Let the horse run, Let the horse's style go, just KEEP him in his game plan and don't INTERFERE with the horse. That is what Krone did and the horse suffered a miserable defeat when the had quite a chance to do well.

10-05-2009, 08:04 PM	#11
Tim Y turf historian Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 6,455	Horses run and horses win races. ANY competent jockey has less than 10% effect on the outcome when ridden well, even the best of them: a Pincay, Bailey or currently Ramon Dominguez etc. Horses can be disastrously handled by a poor ride: getting used up, wide, trapped in tight, moved too early.... a myriad of reasons as, for example the WORST ride in a major contest I ever saw: Forty Niner's Breeder's Cup Classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oksnqhosh8 A known front running, classic distanced horse, this one was a prompter to Winning Colors in the Derby, right on the pace in the Preakness, was the pace in beating Strike the Gold in both the Haskell and the Travers. NOTHING on that track (Churchill Downs) moved up from anything inside the three path all day (rail trips by every race, save Gulch, proved to be costly) so Krone takes this one back, goes RIGHT ON the rail letting the rival he looked in the eye in his Summer triumphs go and then tried to make a single run after strangling the competitiveness out of this very good three year old. Let the horse run, Let the horse's style go, just KEEP him in his game plan and don't INTERFERE with the horse. That is what Krone did and the horse suffered a miserable defeat when the had quite a chance to do well. __________________ Albert Einstein:"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." Last edited by Tim Y; 10-05-2009 at 08:07 PM.