Re: 6 Minutes prior to post in the Preakness... (661 Views)
Posted by:
imallin (IP Logged)
Date: May 25, 2006 06:38PM
I think that jocks may be more apt to ride a horse with a rear leg problem than a front leg problem. If the rear leg goes, the jock has a much better chance to NOT tumble head over heels and go head first into the ground. I'd have to imagine something would have to be pretty severe to scratch a Derby winner who is 1-2 in the preakness.
There's no possible way any jock would say he felt ANYTHING...especially after what happened. Why would prado say, "yeah, he felt a little funny, but i decided to ride him anyway"
Every top jock has ridden thousands of horses, if they scratched every horse who felt even a little off, they'd be scratching a heck of a lot of horses.
Jocks don't want to get the rep of a guy who's scared to ride anything less than a 'perfect horse'.