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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
Mike Smith was whipping right handed doing everything he could to straighten his mount out yet he got days.
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I think Smith was whipping more right-handed to intimidate the D'Amato filly and not to correct his mount. If he wanted to correct his mount, he would have reined the horse back to the inside. He only did this after he successfully impeded the other horse.
Note, too, that Smith chose to whip right-handed with near full extension of his right arm, to where the head of Helen Hillary is convenient in the trajectory of his windmilling. In fact, I'm not even sure he was striking his mount as he's flailing away with too rapid a motion; it's seems more like he's waving it in front of the other horse.
And if he was indeed striking his mount that ferociously, perhaps under the new whip rules he should have been further penalized for failing to give his mount a proper chance to respond.
