Re: Top Flight Handicap (435 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: November 29, 2006 01:18AM
How many times has an apparently beaten horse dug in and come back again when challenged. There is nothing like a hard whip to the face to prevent a horse from coming back in these cases. Racehorses are trained to react to the whip. Try taking a whip to the face and tell how eager you would be to continue racing. It is the job of the stewards to determine if such a foul has clearly occurred, and if so, to penilize it by taking down the offender. Playing psychic and guessing who would have won the race is a job I do not want them to do.
These automatic calls for them to be replaced when they have the stones to do there job is the main reason whey so many of them act like pussies and turn a blind eye to so many flagrant fouls, especially in big stakes races where anything goes.
Bob