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My gut reaction was that Nicholls was protecting his jockey when he stoutly took the blame afterwarjds. He was similarly supportive when Ruby remounted Kauto after the Exeter fall and he ended up injured.
I do think Ruby is a bit too emotionally involved with Kauto, plenty of people got struck into Derek Thompson for his question which provoked Ruby’s anger after the Gold Cup. Thompson is indeed idiotic but to my eye Ruby took the anger into that interview and also took some of it out onto the track today.
He didn’t just want to win but wanted to win by 20 lengths by dominating for over a circuit (a la Denman?) and he ended up getting the best horse beaten. Although I backed Exotic Dancer I felt a bit of anger at Ruby and he looked fairly annoyed with himself right afterwards.
Most of these french breds dont last much past eight and it is not a great idea to treat them like that. A bad day at the office for the Champion trainer and jockey but they are both big men and will be wiser tonight.
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