Spin Out finds peace with blinkers

In his start previous to today, Spin Out got engaged in a full-blown speed duel with Desert Storm, and he was thrown off his game, running 3rd, but checking in 10 lengths behind winner Guyana Star Dweej. The last thing "the book" would say to do after this result would be to add blinkers next time out, but that's exactly what Nick Zito did. And strangely, Spin Out ran from off the pace today and graduated the maiden ranks. Without watching the race today, and watching Spin Out's previous races, it feels like there's a part of the story that is missing. But the pattern is unusual, to say the least, and interesting. Taking Spin Out off the pace even with the addition of blinkers was probably made easier because he cut back to 6f from 8f.