Garcia's Ride on St. Trinians

[dennish]

Garcia \"gave\" the race away on the first turn not the second. He was actually outside of Zenyatta, in about the 4 or 5 path with no one inside him, around the entire first turn. What made him think that was a good idea? Maybe riding to instructions? Doubt it.

[SoCalMan2]

dennish Wrote:
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> Garcia \"gave\" the race away on the first turn not
> the second. He was actually outside of Zenyatta,
> in about the 4 or 5 path with no one inside him,
> around the entire first turn. What made him think
> that was a good idea? Maybe riding to
> instructions? Doubt it.


That is what I thought and posted originally.  However, P-Dub pointed out that if Garcia had gone to the rail, almost certainly Smith would have taken the rail behind him.  When I watched the video the first time, I had thought that Smith saved more ground on the first turn than Garcia and thought Garcia lost the race because Smith picked up a length of ground on the first turn.  That is why I said assume they were one path different.  P-Dub pointed out that my viewing of the video was wrong.  I went back to look, and I now think P-Dub was right (at least, based on the poor quality of the video i was looking at, I think chances are P-Dub is right about relative ground on the first turn).  If you only look at the replay once and not carefully, you do get the feeling that Garcia spotted Smith a length of ground on that first turn.  The Hollywood Park Head On replay of this race is malpractice level bad for anybody who makes videos.  They condensed the race to 1:05, so just imagine how much you miss.