All good points, Imallin, and I hope this particular DQ didn't cost you.

Dont you think, however, throughout your "career" as a horseplayer, that the
"take downs" have been evened out by an equal or nearly equal number of "put ups"?

One of the most bizarre DQs in recent memory was the Drysdale/Stevens (?) runner
who was taken down in the Arlington Million. Almost everyone who watched this
race seemed to think that Stevens' mount bore out into a rival AFTER he had
crossed the wire.

The fact that the "rules of racing", and stewards interpretations of these
rules, are not uniform in every racing jurisdiction is just one of racing's
problems.