durbs wrote:
keniza999 wrote:
BATMAN wrote: he went a crazy speed and any other jockey who would have tried to chase they would have stopped dead at the finish.one cant expect the field to chase a horse running like that for 3000 m
Absolutely Batman. hopefully there will be an inquiry.
How fast could he have been going if the time for the race was 9 seconds slower than the course record?
The horse only lost it's mind some way into the race - up to which point the pace had been pretty sedate, Jockey never pushed the horse at any stage, so was probably never in full flight - just cruising - until the jockey started riding in thhe stretch. No runner went into this race with the objective of running the others off their feet - the strategy of every runner was to conserve energy, and turn the race into a sprint, exactly how the race panned out - they discounted the out of control runner on the fringes of the track. I really cannot see any malice in this race.
It is my assumption, that had Run Rhino Run stayed with the bunch and matched the slow pace, he would have still out-sprinted them all in the finish, and won by a few lengths.
