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Originally Posted by clicknow
He did indeed, and being pressed on the fence.
I just don't get the part about "“No, I didn’t want the horse on the lead. " When a few days ago he said he was going to run this like a match race. So his horse gets pressed by Justify, when he was wanting to be the one pressing....I'd say he really miscalculated his strategy then.
Match race doesn't imply sitting off the pace and following another horse around, does it? Match race to me means, TAKE IT TO THE OTHER HORSE.
However, I like to see the can-do attitude of asumussen:
"We were three-quarters of a length away from where we want to be, let’s figure out how to get it.”
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Trainers are not usually good handicappers (though his mentor sure was).
Also, once the horse broke well and was inside the speed he really had no choice, Brown sounds silly in this case.
