David-- my responsibilities and authority vary from client to client and trainer to trainer with a particular client, from total control with Graph to less so in other cases. This particular ride is a sore point with me, since I did send an e-mail with suggested instructions, and they were not the ones given to the jockey ("drop in behind the speed and save ground" became "sit third", with no mention of saving ground). On paper, those two things could have worked out to be the same thing-- but in fact the jock rode to instructions. Just not mine.

Oh well, it was just a million dollar race. Matches up well with the trip SF got in the same race next year.