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Originally Posted by the little guy
He's a mediocre rider. This is hardly news. He probably should have tried to hold his position better but to suggest he was cheating is moronic.
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Clearly, you are for more expert at watching races for in-race moves (or non-moves) than I am.
As moronic as you may think it is, I simply do not understand why a jockey would offer zero urging to a horse on the lead until he settled into next-to-last and then, suddenly, step on the gas.
Maybe a little bit of that urging on the front end would have given the horse an honest shot, especially since he ran 3rd.
Heck, had he started that urging when he was only 4 lengths back instead of circling the field, the horse might have won by 3.
