Re: Top Flight Handicap (423 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: November 29, 2006 10:50PM
Bally,
To set up a straw man is to misstate an opponent’s position so as to make it so weak as to be easily defeated. To say that the stewards should have turned a blind eye to Garcia’s flagrant foul because it appeared he was going to win anyway is a weak position to begin with - no strawman required. Are horses that can be interpreted as probable non-winners be deprived of their right to run their race without being fouled?
I find it odd that those that are the most critical of the steward’s interpretation are the very ones that are arguing that the stewards’ opinion of who would have won the race be the deciding factor. Does anyone else see the self-contradiction here?
HP, I applaud you for your honesty, though you lost money on the decision. The race is not always to the swift and the fastest horse does not always deserve to win in cases where the jockey does stupid things like misjudging the pace, running into blind switches, etc. or, in this case, whacking his rival in the face with the whip. Those that lost money on Rahy’s Appeal, it was because of your rider's reckess use of the whip.
Bob