Speaking of "letting her run," and appropo to the many call (demands) for news, here's a true story from many decades ago.  The great jockey Johnny Longden loved to ride, so much so that he rode on tracks that many considered too unsafe, such as the half mile oval at the Pomona Fair Grounds here in SoCal.  So one day, Johnny hugging the rail as well as he could in third place on the turn for home. He had room as the two frontrunners naturally came off the rail some as they straightened for the stretch.  But Johnny did not get his mount up and finished, for many, a disappointing third.

So as Johnny is headed back to the jock's room to change for the next race, a couple of obviously agitated, hard core gamblers came up to him and screamed accusingly, "Hey, Longden, you had room on the rail, why didn't you come through there?"  Johnny looked up at them, and calmly said, "what, and leave the horse behind?"

BTW, as some of you older guys might remember (I know some of you Poet gamblers play the ponies), Longden rode Canadian-bred George Royal to victory in his (Longden's) last race, the San Juan Capistrano Handicap, closing day at Santa Anita in 1966.