Re: 6 Minutes prior to post in the Preakness... (1043 Views)
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sighthound (IP Logged)
Date: May 22, 2006 08:24PM
I've watched it over and over ... I think the horse was simply fit and tight and ready to shatter the field, with Prado simply trying to get him on the "listening" wavelength. I don't know if his warmup was too overly "long", as much as the others were short and/or conservative.
Even knowing the disaster about to unfold, and with which leg, I can't see anything amiss (including the little bit available after the false break) - not a short stride, no favoring, no weight shifts, nothing at all subtle that I could see ...