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Originally Posted by Jkpoker10
What about castallano? Idk why he let highland reel get so far away? Flintshire prolly wins if he accelerates earlier. Easy to say as a fan though. Im sure if he goes early and horse fades + finishes poorly... Prolly look ls terrible
Castallano got it badly wrong too, but Moore even more so as he was a further 3 to 5 lengths behind Flintshire through the body of the race. He gave his two main rivals 12 (or more) lengths and 5 lengths at a crucial stage of the race. Terrible stuff. Especially seeing as Moore does this exact same thing on a regular basis in top races. The press here are totally overboard about him, hailing him as the best jockey in the World who can do no wrong, when in reality he is often a liability in top races. As I said above, I can list many many instances where he has done the exact same thing in Group 1s.
Look, I won money on the race as I had Found for a place @ a stand out 1.7. I baulked at going for the win on her due to the Moore factor and the possibility that he would do exactly what he did. I also had her in a win and place double with Limato, so if that one wins it will have cost me a lot, presuming she would have won, which she might not have, but it would have at least been nice for her to have been given a fair shot at it.
Limato even money for a place here and 3/1 for the win. Both are exceptional value, but especially the place odds. I mean, he is fav to win by a clear point on Betfair from Tepin & Alice Springs (both 4/1), but yet both of those are shorter than him on the place market, something that makes zero sense to me seeing Limato is such a reliable type who has only ever been out of the 1st 2 once in a 13 race career spanning 3 seasons and that once at a time when his stable were badly out of sorts.