Kent D...again
 

Another terrible ride. Checked Premium Tap hard...then asks for him to re-rally.
Geesh, if I weighed 40 lbs less, I'd love to ride against him.
Bet Kent if you dare.
To me, he's a very bad rider. BAD!!!

Now he filed an objection! Heck, he picked the hole and ran INTO it!
What a whiner!

What a dope. He tried to have the horse taken down too. Sore loser. Glad I didnt need the 1, incidentally he looked like he was tons the best.

I have zero confidence in him. At times I really like a horse, then, when I see that he's in the irons...I pass.
I'll never forgive his terrible ride on Real Quiet in the Belmont...and he's only gotten worse since.
At least some like Garret Gomez learn from their mistakes.
Kent just keeps being stupid.
Premium Tap is a really nice one. Deserves to be put into "trip notes" after today...especially with a jockey change.

He trys to think way too much. If I owned Premimun Tap I would be punching his lights out for that ride. No need to take a chance like that and then try to re-rally the horse after he was to his knees.

Maybe the most overrated jockey of our time. Consistently in big races gives rides like that.

Has anybody seen the video? So far,I have not seen any good video of it at all.I've seen Willie do even more sloppy riding than Kent.So,if they don't show video,then I'll assume home cookin'.

common sense tells you that Desormeaux was interefered with. they should have taken down the winner and moved the best horse in the race up, Premium Tap.

Scuds,
They won't show a "head on" cause it happened on the turn. Kent went for the rail hole. When it wasn't there, he checked Premium Tap and almost fell.
What a way to waste a horse! Then he asked for a re-rally from almost a stop. Just very bad riding. 'NUF SAID. No need to whine Kentie boy.
Admit it Kentie...my trained chimp could spot a horse better.

the hole was there. he had his shoulders in it then was bumped by that winner as he closed it off. common sense tells one that nobody runs a horse into another horse from behind like that. it only makes sense there was a hole there when KD accelerated into it and then was intefered with.

Willie didnt do anything wrong. Kent made a stupid premature move. He could have waited like any good jockey would have done. No home cooking there.

when Premium Tap's lips kiss the saddle of the the winner after being cut off

another plot on kentucky racing if you cannot have tv coverage on the whole track, every major track in NA can provide headon /rear view coverage on the main track, if this was a turf race, the lapse in camera's view would be an excuse.

turfway has always been the hole of the universe, even before internet racing, perhaps it still is

I can excuse the judges but not the racetrack, or the commision


every part of the race track should and must be covered by the race track video

very disappointed once again by KENTUCKY RACING

there is no way any track should have that kind of hole in the video

Willie didnt do anything wrong.

that's bull****. you expect me to believe a jockey drives into a hole that isn't there ? the so called winner needed to keep a straight path and he did not.

Willie was just race riding. Had Kent had his head up, he would have seen the hole getting smaller. There was still enough room, but Kent didn't move quick enough. His loss.

Stupid time to make a move like that. He should have waited until they got in the stretch. His own fault, someone else's gain. Now everybody knows that this guy is soooo overrated. He needs to stop daydreaming during the race.

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if the kentucky drug policy wasn't enough

there bridge track doesn't have a camera into the stretch on the main and only track

the jock ain't one of my favorites

but that horse was a breath from tumbling head over heals

How Embarressing

he didn't run up on his heals

This ain't just some drunks betting beer money at Turfway.This race was in the NTRA PICK 4,and if they are dirty on this they will be found out.See,this is why you don't ever want to show favoritism to a jock.I pointed it out when they let Willie wipe out half the field in the Churchill stretch a couple years ago.Once you start doing that,you invite a lot of trouble.They didn't even call an inquiry that day.Some of us remember that.

P.Val on Live Life was twice as bad

Sumitas,
I usually agree with you. Just my two cents...races go forward. If KD thought he saw a hole and went for it, even though it wasn't there, no need to whine about it. He almost got himself and his horse killed.
Bad riding. He needs to ride forward, like all the others...and not think that because he's coming, others are looking back behind to give him something.
They're not looking there.

I bet he had skid marks in his jockeys LMAO!!!:D

Hard to comment accurately here without a head on . Even on the pan it looked tight--bad judgement on Kent's part and raceriding from Martinez . BUT, at the sixteenths Kent was desparate to re rally after almost falling and being shuffled out of contention . Ball Four under Martinez definitely drifted out into PT's path . I do not believe the objection was frivilous, but I do believe Desormeaux left his brain elsewhere . I would love to see a head on.

THe sad part about this is I really think alot you believe what you are writing. I am only going to say this once there is NO TRACK in North America let me Repeat that NO Track in North America that would have a head on Shot of were the Questionable foul Occurred.

Face it what happened today happens all the time Sometimes it occurs in the first turn or more often on the far turn. A Jock will think he sees alitte daylight only to have the hole closed. Face it Kent D made a bad Choice he needed to be a little more patient.

Argee, the only way to tell if there was enough room is to see if the horses shoulders were up in the hole and i didn't see that and it cost him the race

Round Pen...very true.
You can't make chicken soup out of chicken s h- t.
Just don't complain about your cooking when nobody wants to eat it.

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almost every racetrack has a rear view camera into the stretch coming off the turn

twp will use no turf course as the excuse for no angle

bad kentucky once again


you don't think a local jock knows where the camera allows him free reign

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what is your definition of interference?

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clipping heals ...sending a rider over the rail


taps recovery was a level with you know who

but lets leave him out of this

My definition is Desormeax created that mess and 100% responsible for getting beat and hopefully he didn't hurt the horse. Jockeys bait each other to come up the rail and then shut it off, he isn't a bug boy he should know better by now

Now that thar is one of the best ideas I've heard in quite a while!
As you know, i'm still working on my patent for the side view mirrors that attach right behind the horses ears..it'll make 'em look like a Mac truck, but who cares? As long as you have a clear view behind you, there really is no need to pay attention to the track that's in front of you.
I'm also thinking a little rear-view mirror like the bicycle guys wear should be attached to the jockey's helmets.
Are there any "venture capitalists" out there?
Shoot!!! Now I know the answer!
Make the jockeys ride backwards. Yup! Just turn the saddles around.
It will make for interesting races, and everyone could watch for Kent coming.

Round Pen
 

Not a head on but a rear view coming off the turn

and if they had a turf course there would be no question at all about the view

face it Kentucky Racing is crap

from the top to the bottom

drugs

bad cameras that miss action

commision vets under suspension left and right

starter problems

oh back to the old days when Dancer was running on Lasix

I am Sorry I just can't respond to this because I am still ROFLMAO:D

What would Maury Say?
 

What would Maury say????????????

At the Hidden Hollow????????

:D :D
I just got that, ha that is the funniest thing i have heard this week!!!!!!:D


Then we could have them run the opposite way as well, NO

beginners
 

I do not post often and may not expess my self as well as I would like to.

But I would expect as the more "Veteran Posters" of this site chime in they will agree will my view

just because the view provided by the cameras do not provide conclusive proof of interference does not mean it was not the truth

it only means that the lack of a camera angle provided at most racetracks in North America that would have shown that closing a hole with a horse up to the saddle of the horse in front would be disqualification grounds but without a defininate camera view. The Stewards had no option but to leave the winner up.

That does not make they're call correct.

I don't usually bet on anything Kent rides...it hurts too much

Two jocks I wouldn't bet with someone else's money:

Kent D. and Mike S.

OK Seriously there is not a race track in the Country that there would have been a definitive camera angle to determine if there were indeed been a reason to disqualify.


It is a judgement call when this happens and 99 times out of a hundred a horse trying to Squeeze up the rail on the far turn will not get through.