Re: Beyer DRF Chat (489 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: June 03, 2004 01:24PM
I talked about this a while back here-- a couple of days after the Rebel, Little Andy (not Beyer, the one who used to be on the NYRA show) called me to see what I had done, because he didn't believe Beyer's figure-- he said Beyer cut the race loose because he just didn't believe it.
Funny thing is, this exact question came up at the DRF Expo panel a month earlier. While I do not have a problem cutting races loose if it is called for, you don't make the decision based only on the winner-- I gave SJ the big jump because if you did the race with the rest of the day, the other horses in the race fit quite nicely, with Purge and Pro Prado pairing up exactly. This is also EXACTLY what happened with War Emblem's first really big figure, which was not the Ill Derby, but the race before it-- you either had to give him the jump, or everyone else an off race.
TGJB