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Was it that the horse wasn’t good enough or that it was best horse in the race and should have won?
I cannot understand why the jockey would position it last and against the rail with a wall of horses in fornt of it at the start of the straight. The jockey then tried to push his way through the wall of horses (the horse still travelling sweetly) before admitting defeat and angling out at which point the horse flew home for second.
Is it me or should this horse have won? In its last three runnings the comments in running are "switched to outside, ran on strongly" so why wasn’t the horse switched to the outside initially?
Did you have a bet in the race FSL?
For me it wasn’t altogether a different ride than the one he was lauded for at York, trouble was the gaps didn’t come for him anywhere near as well as they had on the Knavesmire.<br>
(Edited by davidjohnson at 3:41 pm on Aug. 12, 2006)
The jockey cocked it up big time. At York the faster pace created more gaps and he picked his way through them to the outside to finish powerfully. Today the pace wasn’t as strong and he was over-confident. He was trying to show off and got badly boxed in. By the time he snatched up and switched wide the leaders had got first run and did very well to get so close and would have won in another 50 yards. I lauded him for the ride at York as well as for other excellent rides this season but he needs to accept the brickbats with this one.
Jockeyship of the day went to R Winston aboard Eddie Jock at Ascot. Brilliant ride.
Should really have won comfortably, but I wonder whether he was riding strictly to orders from the ‘choirboy’. Adam Kirby had a few chances in the straight to pick up the leaders by coming wide, yet he sat and waited behind a wall of horses as if he was told not to come too soon. Needless to say, when he pressed the button, he didn’t get a clear run. Unlucky, rather than bad judgement. However, If he was told to ride his own race, he rode a poor one.
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