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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I don't doubt your knowledge, I know it helps you to think it's personal, I think you are jumping to conclusions without anything close to all the facts. You seem to think this is a black and white, or either/or, stuation and I don't.

I never said it is impossible the stewards didn't screw up, but unlike you I am not ready to pin blame on people based on scattered information coming, essentially, from a jockey.

My best guess is the stewards reviewed the incident as the race was going on, decided it was not worthy of further review ( whether any of us agree or disagree with this decision is irrelevent ), and made the race official when they didn't hear from the outriders. I don't know for sure that an outrider was negligent, though perhaps he was, just as I don't know that the stewards were negligent, though perhaps they were. I just don't know. You seem to. How exactly I'm not sure.

What I see far too often on the internet is people jumping to semi-hysterical conclusions based on, at best, a shred of evidence. Now, I don't lump you in this category at all....but in this instance that's what I think you are doing. That doesn't mean I discount the possibility that you are right. I just don't see your comments as fair considering the lack of information.

The problem is that the scattered info from the jockey got broadcast on ESPN giving off the perception that an injustice was done. It would be a very good time for the NYRA to offer an explanation of what happened and if there was any fault on their end to apologize for it and say what measures are put in place to assure it won't happen again. Such a simple task but instead they'd rather leave people pissed off at them for a perceived injustice when it may be as simple as that the jockey was full of sh!t.