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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
As for Castellano’s surprising willingness to track Justify after hustling Noble Indy out of the gate, Repole said of his conversation with him:
“He decided to call an audible, and that’s not the way we wanted the race run. I am baffled by the audible.”
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I'm not sure what he expected.
There were common connections between Noble Indy and Justify.
Did he really want and expect to use Noble Indy as a rabbit?
The thing he should potentially be mildly upset about was the ride on Vino Rosso. I know everyone is going to disagree with me "because he was going for the win", but Vino Rosso was moved prematurely trying to put pressure on Justify. That almost certainly cost him 3rd. If he rode his race and moved when he was supposed to, he gets 3rd and he might have even been in a battle for 2nd other than Gronkowski got that perfect cut the corner trip.
The very idea that you can pressure Justify and beat him that way is so comical I can't believe anyone anywhere believes it. You can pressure him and get him beat, but you will beat your own horse even worse.
You have one hope when you are in Vino Rosso's position. You ride your horse as efficiently as possible for him and you hope Justify has a bad day or someone else is stupid enough to tangle with him prematurely.
