I agree. I have watched the tape several times and the contact between the horses was initiated by the winner looking for a seam entering the top of the stretch, while Prat was simply trying to maintain his position.
Regardless of how Journalism landed in that spot, there are very few horses that would take that type of negative contact from both inside and outside rivals in the stretch and continue running like a fullback that had just ran over the D-Line. This horse is a pit bull.