Show me another example of a Derby horse sharply moving 3 lanes wide and stopping multiple horses, and that horse not getting taken down.

This DQ wasn't normal bumping and jostling that happens in every race. Some are pretending that this happens in every race. It does not.



toppled Wrote:
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> 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.