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Originally Posted by docicu3
Now really what kind of deviant thinks up this crap? Some algae had to lie awake thinking "I gotta win this two year old allowance race..I know I'll stick a drain sponge in the throat of Jones's horse that"ll do it!!
We should do a poll of trainers/connections likely to do something like this......There are only 5 horses in the 8th race 10/16/07 which I had the pleasure of seeing live that day.
The race was won by Jeremy Rose riding for Hamilton Smith owned by William Backer. Second was the early speed ridden by D V Beckner for Guadalupe Preciado for West Point Stables the horse and sponge placed third followed by Ramon Dominquez for Randy Nunley owned by Porter Racing with the trailer being A Freitus for Victor Collazo for Leonard Liberto
SO who would you vote for here? You have to be one desperate soul to stick a sponge so far up the nose of a horse that you impede breathing!!!
Lifetime ban if this ones caught for cruelty..
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This particular trick is almost as old as American horseracing. Reportedly, extra security was placed around Seabiscuit to prevent, among other despicable acts, shenanigans like this. Perhaps I'm naive, since cheating goes on everywhere, but like you, docicu, I'm a regular at Delaware and I find it particularly disturbing that this has happened there. Thankfully, the horse survived the skullduggery.
Personally, I think one of the squirrels might be behind it. There's this one bad actor that always chatters at me when I break out the peanuts.