“He will know he went too soon he won’t need anyone to tell him that.”
“If he had hung onto him, he would have been beaten by further. There is no way he would have matched the finishing burst of the winner.”
I agree with that, he took the bull by the horns when the opportunity was there and went for it.
If he’d been a short price favourite it may have been a fair point but he was an outsider and wasn’t beaten far.