Re: BC CLASSIC (642 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: November 02, 2014 08:56AM
Gate fouls rarely cause a DQ because stewards understand that horses frequently break inward or outward first stride or so.Usually in a severe inward or outward break,which causes a cascading chain reaction, a DQ is made.If every minor gate foul resulted in a DQ, the game would awash in controversy and many players would bail.
It stood out to me that an incident/foul of that severity was rather "quickly" dismissed.Judgement calls always going to cause problems to one group or another but yesterday was a clear takedown imo which would have been made if not for the "Baffert" factor.As far as Garcia intentionally breaking inward, I doubt it as he came out with both lines extended in an effort to dead send, very clear on any replay.
Cali stewards will explain away today at 10am press conference at SA, should be enlightening.