They can ride him as long as they want — and they have every intention of doing so.
Girardi offered a more practical explanation, saying Sabathia saved himself from throwing unnecessary pitches on a day when the Yankees intended to ride him as long as they could.
"Buddy said to me, 'Johnny, go out and ride him as if you owned him.' That was all".
Sam [Twiston-Davies] is going to ride him as Harry [ Bentley his jockey last time out] cannot claim in this race".
Brown Panther's stamina was in doubt for this two and a half miles and it was brave of his jockey, Richard Kingscote, to ride him as if he would last the full distance.
Scudamore said: "We only knew on Thursday that Paul was going to ride him as that was when we heard Jamie Moore had to go to Sandown.
"I got [jockey] Liam Keniry to ride him, as he's one of the best judges around, and he came back and said 'this is a fair weapon' - to me that's his County Cork code for 'you've got a very good one'.
"I ride him hard as soon as we got out of the gate.
"We were going to ride him home as long as we could".
