Re: pat day and azeri (456 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: December 02, 2004 06:44PM
Michael, first off, she'd only been on Saratoga twice. If you follow T-Graph on this you'll see she every time she threw a negative 1.5 she bounced in her next race thereafter. TGraph pattern folks would probably say a neg. 1.5 was her performance limit and it impacted her. If you were thinking along those lines that didn't bode well for her B.C. Classic, because she had tossed a negative 1.5 three weeks prior to the Classic.
However, I always thought her best races were on the lead and I think TGraphs top figures for her bear that out. Theres no need to get into the reasons why. She had one chance and if her trainer and jockey didn't understand that shame on them. I don't think she was positioned form wise to throw her top figure, but if she had been put on the lead and was on form, I couldn't say for sure where she would have finished, but I'm pretty sure she'd of hit the board. Regardless of form, she had to be ridden a certain way to win and she wasn't.
CtC