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11-09-2010, 07:50 AM
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Mike Smith is a great jockey
Watched the replay of the race and his stretch run navigation of the field was excellent. If Zenyatta was more used to the dirt or if Mike could have cleared the field a fraction of a second earlier, she wins.
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11-09-2010, 07:56 AM
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Good read -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/hor...se-Racing.html excerpt from - Later Smith confided that he had even contemplated pulling her up after the field passed the post first time. "I was thinking what do I do? Do I pull her up?" he told me as we walked through the dark streets of Louisville. My God - could you imagine what would happen if he did?!~ I don't think he did a thing wrong.
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11-09-2010, 10:25 AM
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Stunning to watch that replay again
How much the camera had to pan away just to keep Z in the picture with the other horses coming down that lane the first time I mean, if that was the first horse race I ever saw in my life and was watching with a few of my drunken homies it'd be like Hey, Rick, is that your horse number eight? LOL dead last LOL look at that f'n slow pig LOL LOL Ah, but the joke would've been on me the next time they came around as my naive azz probably would've had a 20 spot on the 'uber fast' QR Let there be NO doubts the GREAT Cali mare has the heart of a CHAMPION 
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11-09-2010, 10:26 AM
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He's not great and never has been....Occasionally he gives some great rides. Let's not throw around the term great with jockey except for a very few.
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11-09-2010, 11:14 AM
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11-09-2010, 10:27 AM
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Let there be NO doubts … you have the brain of a MUSHROOM.
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11-09-2010, 10:36 AM
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Byk must really like you, Indian boy
CM was great, randy.
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11-09-2010, 10:47 AM
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My problem with Mike Smith is that he seems to ride almost every other horse that he's on, like they are Zenyatta. Most of them don't fare too well by trying to come from the clouds and then going 5 wide at the top of the lane.
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11-09-2010, 01:08 PM
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And Byk must really think you are an idiot. Like everyone else besides Prudery.
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11-09-2010, 10:49 AM
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Again the chills, excellent read. Tell your homies, whats up? From Joey S
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11-09-2010, 10:50 AM
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His Jaycito ride gave a whole new definition to wide trip. Just think if ol' Mike could have figured out a way for the horse to run straight earlier. He's at least on the board, IMO.
I know Mike Smith loves the ambulance path, but that was kind of ridiculous.
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11-09-2010, 10:53 AM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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11-09-2010, 04:39 PM
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No problem, Rock I lift with them a couple times a week It's a good idea to stay on their good side. 
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11-09-2010, 05:15 PM
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11-09-2010, 08:31 PM
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Do you think David Flores would have been better? He rode her the first three times and if wasnt for him to stay in So Cal to ride Bobs Black Jack in the '08 SA derby instead of the Apple Blossom he still would have been her jockey.
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