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Originally Posted by Dahoss
Because what you are describing didn’t happen. War of Will and Tyler G did nothing wrong. Country House wasn’t impacted at all.
Confirmation bias based on that ridiculous video you were talking about yesterday.
How Tyler G is now the villain in all of this is sad. He literally did nothing wrong and rode a tremendous race.
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This is just good old NBC's coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_ychn7ga0
At 1:09 seconds on the video, WOW is clearly unsettled in behind MS. Are you telling me you can't see him throwing his head? Maybe it's the kickback of mud, but he clearly does not want to be in that spot.
From about the 1:16 mark to right about 1:50, Tyler G is literally standing in the irons, restraining WOW, who is clearly eager to get out of that spot. Please tell me that I am making that up and you do not see that either?
At 1:59 you can see WOW's head come out from behind MS as Tyler goes for the seam and he clearly bumps into LRT, who in turn bumps BE and finally CH. Again, you don't see any of that happening in this video? This is well before MS ever crosses out over that tractor track/puddle as they straighten away. And good for Tyler for trying to find that seam. That's horse racing. But you can't vilify Saez for riding dangerously and almost causing an incident that horse racing could never come back from, then say only that Tyler G rode a tremendous race.
My point is simply the folks that support the DQ simply want to focus on what they want to shine a light to, and nothing else. And I am not making Tyler G a villain at all. I am simply sticking to the opinion that this race is like no other run in this country. 20 horses (in this case 19), whatever conditions, and horses running further than they have ever run before, and for most will ever run again. Bumping and grinding for the most part for 10f. It's the nature of the beast known as the Kentucky Derby. I also don't think that anyone on the side of no DQ thinks Maximum Security didn't do anything. He clearly did. But all of the calls stewards make are "judgement" calls. My opinion is they didn't consider all of the factors contributing to Maximum Security's actions when making their judgement call. Which just happened to occur while our sport's biggest race was receiving the best ratings since 1990. And most, who barely have a clue in the first place, where left even more confused than when they turned their TV on.