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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
The entire thing felt like a prep race to me. It was like Pletcher said "We have bigger fish to fry later, get a good race into him, but don't kill him first race off the bench to win". I could almost live with all that even though it was a Grade 1 race. But if that's the case, don't use your horse hard enough to clear a horse like JW early and then sit until the 1/8th pole. Sit off him from the start, teach him something, and then finish. If you lose, OK.
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I thought it was more of prep race as well. I have no problem with the ride given that it was prep race and he most likely was not 100% coming off the layoff. Looking at his 1st 3 races Life Is Good was in front every call so I was not expecting Mike to try anything different at least intentionally. I'm sure they would have loved to get the win but they got what they wanted which was a very good race into him.
Let's try your theory. Sit off Jackies Warrior from the start, teach him something and finish. Let's say it works to a tea and he get's beat. You have a bunch of people saying what a fool Mike was how could he just hand the lead to Jackies Warrior, he wasn't trying to win the race. If you try that strategy and it goes poorly you probably don't get anything out of the race and people still bitching about Mike's ride.
