Photo by Eclipse Sportswire
It’s usually easy to see when a horse runs into trouble during a race.
What’s more difficult to discern is whether that trouble had any impact on the outcome of the race.
Sometimes traffic problems can cost a horse a race. Other times it was a meaningless footnote to a foregone conclusion. Deciding between the two isn’t easy, but one reliable factor involves what a horse shows once he extricates himself from trouble.
