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Well STD, looking between his legs with a furlong to go and still losing the race to a horse that lost at least 30 lengths when carried out through the 1st bend makes him look very bad.
I know that the Gredley Flat horses aren’t worth much over hurdles, but this ride looked very poor considering the jockey’s experience.Agree it looked poor. The only mitigation I think of is STD was clearly bothered about the loose horse in the back straight, having seen what it did earlier. I think he decided to press on to get out of its way – but he has used up too much energy and had nothing left for the finish.
I suppose he would have been a lucky winner, given how much ground the eventual winner lost on the first turn.
Agree CAS. Only time will tell how good the winner is and how average she might turn out to be.
Stewards looked into that:
Held up in rear early, headway and led before 3rd, went clear 5th, no extra when pushed along run-in, headed towards finish (an inquiry was held into the running and riding; jockey said that after the fourth last, he had to reluctantly ask the filly for effort to pass the loose horse to ensure that he wouldn’t receive interference, and in doing caused filly to run and jumped with next couples hurdles enthusiastically; he added that jumping the second last hurdle began to tire and landed awkwardly over the last, stating that the winner had quickened away from him with his filly having no more to give on the steep run to the line; he further added that filly in his opinion had obtained the best possible placing under circumstances) (tchd 2/11)
Plaudits to the stewards for at least asking the question.
It seems like a reasonable explanation to me. If the loose horse had not been threatening to get involved, STD wouldn’t have kicked on and Trad Jazz probably would have won.
Not much consolation to the punters who staked £2,595.60 at 1.01. Plus:
1.02 £3,441.78
1.03 £5,881.38
1.04 £5,635.01
1.05 £6,116.26
1.06 £2,509.49
1.07 £1,441.62
1.08 £2,370.43
1.09 £2,314.83
1.1 £4,573.96CAS, all the punters getting their fingers burnt at 1.10 (or less) had the chance to watch the race and make their own opinions. It was a rather poor ride, but chasing at 1/10 to 1/100 after the horse had all that extra work mentioned, makes no sense. Racing wasn’t rigged in this case, but many losers will sell it like it was.
I agree, they made a bad mistake. To my mind, STD’s body language was not confident after jumping the second last hurdle. His look around suggested anxiety rather than confidence.
True. Also a jockey looking/turning back doesn’t mean the race is won. But, it causes the IR price to drop a tenth of a point or even more.
He was looking around because he knew he was hanging onto nothing up the straight having wasted all that energy in that ill advised move in kicking clear of the loose horse (a move that cost him the race) – hindsight is a great thing but he would have been much better off pulling back and letting the loose horse clear off ahead of him, at least that would have enabled his horse to have conserved energy to finish off the race strongly rather than falling in a heap.
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