Re: Let Me Call BS On One Thing Re DQs (774 Views)
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toppled (IP Logged)
Date: May 05, 2019 07:56PM
Here's the problem I have with the DQ. There are 144 years of history where many horses have been interfered with and lost all chance at various points of the race. It was like there was an unwritten rule that no matter what happens you don't take one of the top finishers and especially the winner down. I can think of a few horses over the years who got bounced around all over the place and nobody ever considered taking action against any of the horses who bothered those other horses. It's a much bigger field than just about every other race in the USA. It's a much bigger crowd with more crowd noise than most other races. In the past I thought the stewards understood how unique this race is and gave more benefit of the doubt than in a normal race with a normal sized field of 14 or fewer horses and a normal crowd (like a crowd on a weekday at Belmont that couldn't make enough noise to wake a sleeping man).
Now the public is on notice that the stewards will be looking at the rodeo & are willing to take the best horse down for something they didn't do for the past 144 years. Seriously, it makes me less inclined to bet future Derbies to the extent I usually do for fear that if my horse touches another horse at any point of the race & wins, I may end up getting DQd.
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