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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
How many times a horse turns for home and starts looking at the grandstand, and how uncomfortably often the jockey doesn't try all that hard to straighten his head out?
I've noticed this...a lot...I find myself yelling at my PC monitor "straighten his head out!"
The simplest things sometimes...it's uncanny how often the ones that DO straighten the horse's head out go on to kick it into gear...
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you have some clips I can look at? Is the horse's ears pricked? Is he looking ahead with inner eye or outside eye? Is his right ear only focused on the crowds? There are so many things might be going on that I would have to see clips to determine what is happening in each case.
There are many reasons why a horse's head may seem tilted outward including eye dominance, soundness,way of going and blinker cup size placement to name a few off the top of my head.
I have ridden a few races and can only recall a handful that paid any attention to the crowd for more than a split second.
