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Originally Posted by Mandrake
I don't understand why everyone is mad at Jerry Bailey. Who is more at fault, the jock that wants to put your horse in the ground, or the rider that allows his horse to be put in the ground? If you are Elliot fans, then obviously the former, however I didn't think he rode such a pristine race. And I wanted Smarty Jones to win because I had a 20 dollar P3 with him singled that was paying very nicely.
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And Smarty was easily the best horse in the race. He was full of himself that day and just needed to be handled properly. I don't know if Elliott should have been prepared for the gang up on him or not. No idea if there were whispers in the jock room that the field was going to make it hard on SJ, or if Elliott should have just assumed that they would because that's what they do in horse racing, but it always seemed to me he could have countered whatever was thrown at him simply because he had the better horse and that horse was as ready as he could be. Birdstone was a real nice colt, a deserving graded stakes caliber horse, but he needed every bit of that set up to beat Smarty Jones that day.
