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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Flavien Prat on Cezanne in yesterday's Kona Gold Stakes. The favorite, Brickyard Ride, went out way too fast (and unnecessarily so; it was a 4 horse field and there wasn't a ton of pressure). Prat stayed way back, moved at the proper time, and then was able to come through on the inside when the tired favorite bore out at the top of the stretch.
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Brickyard Ride is a run-off anyways, but you don't think Ax Man was on a mission the first 1/4 mile?
Not going to give Prat props for successfully negotiating a 4-horse field in which a stablemate was in there solely to hound the front-running favorite.
He rode about as well as Bill Shoemaker did in the 1980 Woodward.
