Not familiar with the "Technical Foundation" for challenging a Stewards Ruling, but the only horse with a "claim", (Which wasn't lodged), was Long Hot Toddy. He did "Take Up' momentarily, but made no Objection. (He was clearly dead in the water). The review is valued at millions, so I'd think the Wests would pursue it. Very questionable manipulation by the Stewards. Even their crafted post race statement was founded on fabrication.

We'll see how the place horse fairs hereafter. He sure caught a monumental break by the stewards. They say the ruling was "unanimous". They sure must have deliberated on that for a while to reach such a conclusion. Some real arm twisting "politics" was going down there.

JimP Wrote:
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> I think the only question was did it alter the
> order of finish.
>
> “If in the opinion of the stewards a foul alters
> the finish of a race, an offending horse may be
> disqualified”
>
> I don’t see how the stewards concluded that the
> incident altered the finish of the race. WoW did
> get impeded, but he recovered, continued racing,
> and then backed up. How can they say they know
> that WoW wouldn’t have stopped in the stretch
> without the incident. Looked to me like he was
> just out run. And there was no interference with
> CH. The incident didn’t even slow him. He just
> got out run by MS. Taking down MS was a travesty.
> Another black eye for racing.