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Originally Posted by swetyejohn
it was the jockey's fault.
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I can't blame a jockey for not being able to change a horse's running style at the last minute, "during" a big race.
As a matter of fact, I'm against drastically altering a horse's running style,
period.... unless there is something mechanically / musculoskeletally incorrect in the first place that would vastly hinder their career on the track, or cause them to come to harm. And that would happen very early on in their career, not the end of it.
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Originally Posted by swetyejohn
Zenyatta is perhaps the greatest closer of all time, though.
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And everyone who knows how the track played on SAT, and what the consistency of the track was, knew that it would not be playing to her kind of running style, hence: it is
precisely a testimony to Zen's greatness that she GOT a head behind Blame (horse-for-the-course) at the finish line....
and ahead of all those other dirt horses who should have been there, but weren't...(and didn't have any excuses).
