Re: Was it greed or ego??? (607 Views)
Posted by:
beazley (IP Logged)
Date: August 30, 2015 08:16PM
My opinion is AP was not the same for "pick your reason" and was going to regress off the -3 but that he might have still won if not for the pressure he endured for a sustained portion of the race. It is hard on horses to run sustained like that between the rail and a horse looking him in the eye. Not to mention the bumping adds a lot of stress which we saw coming off the turn and according to jockey was happening repeatedly around the turn. If you believe the jockey (even if he can't count calendar days) that AP was not at his best (which I do) then it's also reasonable to believe that he was crowded and bumped. An overhead view would have been nice post race. Not a stretch to believe that sustained run and bumping could have cost him a TG point and the victory.