My Thoughts on Edgar Prado's Comments

Maybe it's just me. I am oldmantime and time changes everything and everybody. But, I can't get Prado's first words after the Belmont out of my mind. "I'm very sorry to have won and beat Smarty, but that's my job". I can't imagine Angel Cordero or other jockeys from the past saying they are sorry for having won a race.

I've been a race fan for a very long time and have NEVER heard any jockey make such a comment.In a game that many in the public have doubts about for honesty; this surely was uncalled for; especially immediately after the race. The first thing that would come to my mind would be the great race that my horse just ran, certaintly not words of apology.
Steward Elliott and Smarty probably just got beat fairly and squarly. But keep a couple things in mind. Neither Elliott nor his connections are in the New York racing circle. Most of the others were. Wathing how the race played out, with wave after wave of horse coming at Smarty throughout the race and then fading; only to watch Birdstone, come from WAY off the pace to win in the last yards can only make one wonder. Did the other jockeys includiin Bailey, simply run what they knew were suicide missions to let one of "their own" win. I surely don't know. But I know two things; A. If it can happen anywhere in the WORLD, it can happen in New York. and B. Prado's comments were totally uncalled for.

Baily said the same sorts of things last year and Prado said something like that when War Emblem did not win. Nothing wrong with the comments at all. Hes saying "Fans I know you were here to maybe see a Triple Crown, we appreciate the support and the mutual window support that is how Im paid. Im sorry that history was not made today but I had a horse ready to win today but this is great support"

Prado is not exactly a dictonary of words when it comes to an interview. IT was fine what he said.

I must have missed their comments from previous years.