[johnjdonoghue]

To be honest you can talk about jockey errors till the cows come home, but surely what hampered the European horses was how quickly they broke from the stalls and took a position.

It is quite evident that horses are not trained to react to breaking like lightning when the stalls open. Robgomm you commented that Van Nilsteroy broke level because he had a US Jockey on board, after half a furlong he had only two behind him, Hold that Tiger and Tomahawk, so to be honest I don’t think he broke well at all.

Also Benmore you say that Lester Piggot found himself in a similiar position on Royal Academy as MJK, was Lester hampered when he was just about to get to work on the horse? I would be interested to know the answer to that?

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