Re: All of these people saying Maximum Security didn't keep his path (831 Views)
Posted by:
Fairmount1 (IP Logged)
Date: May 05, 2019 11:08PM
Maybe the infraction rulebook is different based on the name of the trainer. Interesting comments from Pletcher in here also.
https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2019/05/05/kentucky-derby-maximum-security-country-house-disqualification-hangover
One dissenting voice on the backstretch was another Hall of Famer trainer, five-time Derby winner Bob Baffert. During the race, Baffert stood in the saddling paddock, where he watched American Pharoah win the 2015 Derby and near the small room where he watched Justify win it a year ago. Baffert suggested that the Derby is just a different race from all others, and that everyday rules should not always apply. [b][u]“No one ever calls an objection in the Derby,”[/u][/b] Baffert told me Sunday afternoon, by text. [b][i]“It’s always a roughly run race. Twenty-horse field. I have been wiped out numerous times, but that is the Derby. I can see by the book why they did it. But sometimes you’ve got to take your ass-kickings with dignity.[/i]”[/b]