 Re: Irish In-Running Tactics
Haven't seen a replay of todays race so just going off initial impressions........and the race result 'comments in running'
If the 'swerve' on A Volta was premeditated then the conclusion would be that they were setting the race up for Bashkirov - he was the only one of the O'Brien runners coming up the inside of AV.........but that's stretching credulity beyond limit. He was already a beaten horse as were two other O'Brien runners at the back of the field.
It can't have been deliberately done to help Frozen Fire because he himself was coming wide and if the interfered with horses had gone further wide, he'd have been interfrerd with as well. As it was the comments in running say 'slightly hampered'.......
In any case A Volta might have won himself if he'd run a straight line..........
I just can't see that it was deliberate. |