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Originally Posted by Robert Fischer
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I do know that I've dialed down my post-position bias plays @ 7.5f lately. Most of the jocks fail to adapt situational tactics and just pray for 'decent position' early, thus allowing outside horses to comfortably establish forward inside position half of the time...
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Not sure what happened in the 10th today with the
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The horse may have been empty, but there was no apparent urgency from the gate to secure forward position.
An early pace horse ended up turning down the gift of an inside draw, and instead was in a stalking/closing position.
And this was the jock of the
in yesterday's race who we were praising for following Irad.
Maybe the horse was just empty from the gate?
Maybe the trainer mis-read the last two efforts and was scared to go early?
Who knows... /frustrating to think along