I had a big reply typed up but then BF went down.. anyway, pretty much what waki said.
And also what I was gonna say is that just because it worked this time, doesn't mean it will in some other race. Even if the same guys lined up tomorrow the race would most likely finish differently.
Sometimes bridging is the right move (if it's the winning break, which is always a big if); sometimes it'll be the Nth break that works, and bridging to anything else is just wasted energy.
Sometimes if you wait too long, bridging is really hard if not impossible (like when the break is going to lap the field). In this case it was a relatively small gap, so everything worked out.
The other thing I was gonna say is that if anything I should be taking advice from Puppy Doge, not the other way around!