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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
Actually, I think the Mig moved too soon on that horse. He shook him up late turn, was sticking just before he entered, and the horse took a while to change leads. The horse was very hard used.
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For a horseplayer who is as insightful trip observer as you are, I just don't understand why you think he moved too early?
I couldn’t find one thing critical to say about Mig’s ride this day. Mig made 2 great decisions I thought that won him the race, first he let his horse dictate where he was most comfortable, alot of jockey's would have made the mistake and rushed up and engage the leader or even worse get in a struggle for the lead, cut throat tactics that usually mean an out of the money placing, second he made one quick move on the turn to be head to head with the Mott horse at the top of the stretch. Without sacrificing his horse he was able to be eye ball to eye ball with the Mott horse heading for home and that to me was the difference. From there on it was who ran faster to the wire, both horses had a lot of run and it was just a bob that separated them. If Mig had waited I doubt his horse would have gotten up, he would have had too much to do, it’s a tight balancing act saving horsepower and distributing it through keys moves in the body of a race, in this case if I had my money on the Mig/Jerkins horse I would have been very pleased with the distribution. How many times have we lamented overly patient rides or dumb impatient rides as is the case with the Albarado case in this thread.