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Originally Posted by CRIMINAL TYPE
The worst beat goes to Criminal Type who played Magna Light at 13-1
in race 9 and saw him win wire to wire and then get taken down to 3rd.
Hey RQ -
I see you noticed that travesty of "Justice" 
Did you also notice the dude at the end of the bar
drowning his sorrows in Scotch! 
At least it wasnt real moolah!  that I lost |
I feel your pain, CT. That was one of two VERY questionable DQ's by the NYRA stewards this weekend, each of them affecting major stakes races. I don't know which one was worse - the DQ of Magna Light, who definitely veered off course but didn't appear to cause anyone to check or alter course, or the DQ of I'm A Chatterbox, who did "shepherd" Curalina but I didn't think enough to affect the outcome of the race. Amazingly, in each case a Pletcher/Johnny V runner was elevated to a graded stakes win.
What surprises me is that for most of the year at AQ and BEL, the stewards have been applying a "let 'em ride" standard and allowing incidental stuff to stand. Suddenly at two major stakes races at the Spa, they have started to apply a different standard. I can't say that it's incorrect, just that it is inconsistent with what I have been seeing them do all year long.