Re: What about the 8th at Los Al tonight (602 Views)
Posted by:
SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: April 24, 2016 12:28PM
BitPlayer Wrote:
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> My take: Desormeaux had straightened his horse out
> before there was contact. The other horse then
> came over on him and initiated the contact.
Thank you for the response. You could be right. I will need to look at the replay again. However, my recollection was that Desormeaux's horse was on the rail (or close to it) and came 5 or 6 paths wide to engage the horse running on the crown. My recollection (which could be faulty) was that the horse on the crown was bracing/preparing for the contact that was coming. While that may have looked like initiative, it seems somewhat justified with Desormeaux's horse making such a starkly sharply aggressive move towards him. Is a horse supposed to check and give up the path because somebody comes straight for him? Remember also the difference between slo mo and real time and a huge horse clearly coming out with mal-intent. Anyway, I do not think there was any question that even if the 7 horse defensively initiated the contact, Desormeaux's horse definitely pushed back and there can't be reasonable argument about which horse got the worst of it. Now, I agree that the 7 was not likely to beat Desormeaux's horse, but I find it hard to believe that he would have been caught for the DH for place if he had not had that trouble.
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