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Originally Posted by Pell Mell
I catch a lot of winners in the course of a year using that same angle. The fact that one can see no logical reason why the jock takes the mount is precisely the reason to bet it.
I often wonder what the trainer tells the jock or his agent to convince them to take the mount especially when your sure the jock could have ridden one of the contenders if he wanted.
I do have a few things I research before making these bets because there are a lot of top jocks that take a mount that looks to have no chance and runs just the way he should, nowhere.
The jock move that baffles me is when you see a horse that looks good but the jock who normally rides it takes a different mount and the jock that rode that one jumps on the one that the first jock got off . I see this a lot at tracks in the northwest.  |
I agree. We all know that horses are not machines and they are affected by daily occurances and so on...it seems that what is on paper is not what is real for some of these horses in terms of what is considered winning form.
