T Severini Wrote:
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> >
> > Among Kent's worst rides ever . . . going some,
> I
> > know . . .
>
> Topcat, Kent said that at no point in the race did
> he have a horse and that's what it looked like
> here. Isolated him on replays and he moved
> towards the rail and then ran wide coming around
> the final turn, lost ground from there. Don't
> think the wide or bias was the reason, just not
> enough horse. The good news unless he was hurting
> from the get go, he certainly didn't put out much
> energy that race.
>
> Haven't seen him as a Preakness go yet but if he
> gets in and its not slop I'll go again. He had to
> improve to get up there, but he was on a pretty
> good forge pattern and to me my eye was really
> bred for it. Look at his final work especially in
> regard to his race fractions. I thought he was
> poised.



My beef was/is that going wide for any appreciable portion of those proceedings was willful suicide. He needed a trip, for sure, but Kent was too wide for too long for anything else to matter. Agree there figure to be better days ahead for him.