Re: No DQ Aq8 (749 Views)
Posted by:
TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: April 23, 2016 01:12PM
I've been biting my tongue, because a) I'm involved with the horse that should have been put up, and b) that was as clear a foul as I (and apparently everyone else, not just here) have seen.
But aside from it being a foul EVEN if you need to determine that it DID affect the outcome, the rule is ridiculous, for the same reason it was ridiculous in the BC Classic a couple years ago. If you have to determine that it DID affect the outcome-- not COULD HAVE-- there's no such thing as a foul early in the race. If someone impedes a 1/5 shot going to the first turn and he loses the rider, you can't KNOW he would have hit the board. So by their definition it's not a foul.
Absurd.