The funny thing about trainers being confident.......
When you hear a boy in the UK say he has got a real decent horse and he expects him to run well, the horse either wins or runs a nose second (with exceptions as always). Even when a horse comes back from a year break and the horse is rated highly it comes back and wins or runs a nose second........
Now we have the boys here in SA. In most instances when a horse is talked up ANYTHING can happen. The horse could "need the run" (I love that excuse), it could have lost ground at the start, it could have been overrated, it could have been, it could have been, it could have been..............
What can we deduct from this debacle? The UK trainers are better judges, our guys are plain unlucky when it comes to "bad breaks, i.e: the horse gets injured in running, gets left at the starting stalls, the rider farts too hard and the horse looses concentration.
I guess horseracing is a harder game than I originally thought? :S
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