You guys think he was stupid?
Just watch saturday's last race at Belmont for THE definition of STUPID.
Since I was 5 or 6 years old, I would say "LEFT HAND WHIP" as my horse was coming down the lane. For many reasons.
Well, super mental midget Luis Saez attempted to commit suicide in the last race. His horse was up 3-5 lengths in deep stretch of a race. His horse suddenly went to the wrong lead inside the 1/16 AAAAANNNNDDDD started to lug in on that incorrect lead....
Genius Saez, decided to whip hard right handed. Horse crashes into the rail and breaks the rail a few yards from the wire.
There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO reason for ANY JOCKEY, from Utah to PLUTO, to EVER whip a horse right handed WHEN THEY ARE ON THE LEAD in the stretch (Unless the horse has some crazy quirk and bolts when whipped left handed). Plus when you whip left handed, you can herd out any oncoming foes who are rallying to the outside.
On a different level, if you whip a horse (right handed) who goes back to the wrong lead you are asking for your horse to lug in bad. Not a smart move when you are already close to the rail.
The correct thing to do is to give a circular motion with your hands in an attempt to recorrect the horse OR to whip left handed to avoid lugging in bad.
There were a handful of people on track that let this mental midget have it as he crashed his horse to the rail and to the ground.
And people get mad at me on here when I compain about jockeys?
That ride is absolute proof of how utterly stupid some of these guys are.
