Check out the NYRA press release/X statement re-typed below concerning the Scratch at the gate in the finale.

Who alerted the stewards?
How was that enough to make them decide to make a scratch?
What was the conversation between the person that alerted them and the stewards?
Who is persuasive enough to make them decide in that small window of time to deem the horse a Purse Money only?
Was it the CAW's?
Why did you not announce the reason why at the time of the announcement?
Why didn't anyone say anything all day? Was it because "well it didn't matter" until someone was alive to the finale?
Was it a unanimous decision?

What a complete and total joke. Racing is deemed dead by more people I know lately than I can count. I try to continue to be positive but this is pretty awful. The stewards at NYRA are completely incompetent. They should all be fired immediately and the game again needs to reinvent itself and start over. Their summer performances at Sar speak for themselves as part of this statement that they should be gone.

A screenshot shows at 38 mtp of race 1 during Talking Horses, the #13 horse in the finale is shown on the Screen as a scratch as they discuss the race BUT Andy and Sara have the horse included in their selections. Anyone that has ever watched the show knows AS would light up the crew for having his selections wrong if they were scratched. No one relied upon that information for their wager. But. . . if one can use leverage for profit, you know they will.

SIDE BAR: I was alive to 4 and 13, finishing 3rd and 2nd respectively. The 1 won but 4 went favored which are there folks that can control who goes favored? Is there a group that would do anything in the world to ensure their profits will remain as high as possible? That aside, there was no time to make an intelligent decision and esp not knowing who would go favored then since CAW's have played games before with making one horse a favorite who shouldn't be if that's the correct financial decision.

The Stewards had ALL Day to decide to leave it alone or change it before the start of the p6. Someone alerted them and they screwed nearly every retail gambler involved in the race horizontally or playing vertically (and possibly the CAW's got screwed also? IDK) placing them in an impossible situation nearly at the gate about how to handle the situation.

RETAIL Gamblers are seen as the enemy of everyone employed in racing. It must be in the Employee Handbook at Every Track. Imagine being an employee who has to go on air and say NYRA does a better job of taking care of customers and provides the best product and on and on and on. . . I am often glad I never worked in the industry b/c lying esp to the public isn't in my DNA. It's a pre-requisite to make it with this gambling game/industry.

Yes, I won today. Yes, I did not have the winner of the finale. The point is the complete disregard for retail gamblers at every single step. It is getting more and more difficult to not walk away from a game I love.
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@TheNYRA wrote at 6:58 p.m.

An update from NYRA regarding Race 11:

Earlier today, Just One More [No.13] appeared as scratched during a portion of the Talking Horses broadcast. The stewards were alerted to the issue as the horses were in the paddock for Race 11 and determined that Just One More despite not having been scratched in the tote system at any point, would race for purse-money only with bettors receiving the post-time favorite Addagirl Addie [No. 4] in multi-race wagers.