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Originally Posted by mountainman
No desire to intrude on question aimed at Vic, but those familiar with Leon have seen these antics tons of times. In seeking to impede or discourage rival horses and jocks, Sonny can contort himself into positions astride his mount that truly defy gravity. No disrespect, I am a fan of his and very friendly with his agent, but Leon saying this resulted from saddle slippage is akin to Dillinger claiming he was merely compensating for broken bank vaults.
Admittedly, I watched the race just twice, and gave the head-on only a cursory look, but did get the impression the incident took root when Leon began steering into a perhaps ill-advised effort to counter the third finisher. Also, I wonder had Sonny NOT been quite as intent on putting his mount as close as possible to HRC, if the winner would have responded quite that gamely to negate Rich Strike's momentum.
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Mark thanks for your input. You are not intruding on anything. I was specifically reaching out to Vic because I knew he was a steward and I feel his opinions of things are very fair….just like yours. It does boggle my mind that Sonny would guide his horse into the path of HRC because staying in a straight path would have more then likely netted a win. That’s what leads me to believe in this case something was wrong. Maybe he has done things like that in the past or it is part of his racing antics but this one just looks and feels different. Maybe he is like the boy who cried wolf and this time it really happened as he put it. I certainly respect everyone’s opinion I just feel the akward posture and his veering to the left was not on his own accord.
