Kela's BC Trip (520 Views)
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BitPlayer (IP Logged)
Date: December 11, 2004 10:36AM
I disagree. One of the things to which Mike Mitchell attributed Kela's success this summer at Del Mar was that they had finally learned how to ride him. He won't run inside horses. Wide trips are part of the deal with him, and large fields like the BC obviously make the wide trip wider.
I also suspect that Kela's bad performance in the Underwood this past weekend may have been partially due to the fact that Nakatani kept him relatively close to a hot pace, rather than taking him back and letting him make one run, as Tyler Baze and Jerry Bailey had done in the past. Of course, his fever the previous weekend and the wet going may also have had a hand.