Re: Lezcano (456 Views)

I watch a lot of tape and that ride was bizarre to say the least. The horse is hustled from that gate and easily makes the lead but instead is grabbed to sit off the duel. Appears loaded off the pacesetters in the backstretch and joins the leaders 3 wide on the turn with no urging whatsoever. The horse could have easily passed the front runners at anytime but Lezcano is still motionless while looking at who is coming behind him. Only after he is passed in stretch does he urge the horse to lose by a short head. If this happened in Hong Kong he would hauled before the stewards for a hearing - here probably nothing. The horse was lengths the best, and anybody who bet the horse was robbed.