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Originally Posted by Riot

I thought this was a good job by the stewards - the 10 was all over the place, as soon as the 9 came inside at the top of the stretch the 10 bashes over towards the rail starting a chain reaction affecting three other horses where one of those horses got squeezed and had to pull up to keep from clipping heels and crashing.

Of course the 10 comes down behind the three he interfered with.

I agree. He never hits him right handed until he sees Bejarano try to go inside. Then the effort to herd /intimidate begins. What I am saying is if Gomez is on a horse that is gunna get beat, he does quite the same thing as Victor did, and they are more than happy to overlook it. This is more about who than what. I guarantee you that.

7/11/08-HWD RACE 4-Stewards welcome home Gomez by overlooking the fact he let a tired horse drift out(because he saw he wasn't gunna hold off a Mullins oncomer if he stayed straight.) Watch the pan shot, and you'll see the Mullins horse had the momentum to go by, but comes outward towards the viewer. It broke his momentum just enough to keep him from going by, and he lost by a head. If Gomez doesn't foul, he doesn't hold on. The best horse on the day was not Gomez' horse, but the stewards overlooked that. He is very good at cheating. He makes it easy on them to help him. This is a great example of it. They are blind when they want to be. Look at Gomez on the head-on. You will see he knows the horse wants to come out. So, he keeps hitting hard righthanded. The instant he realizes the other horse has got enough late run to get him, what does he do, folks? He stops hitting him. That's not a random decision. His only shot at holding on was to foul. So, he stops hitting righthanded, and the horse shifts out right away. He forces the other horse to avoid him, and that was just enough cheating to allow him to hold on. It's a foul. They overlooked it, because of who was fouling. If Espinoza had done that, he was coming down that night. 100% sure of this.

6/26/08-HWD RACE 1-This is such an incredible take down. I can't begin to help them on this. It's 100% payback for Nakatani saying "they don't know what they're doing"(the weekend before this.) They are supposed to be above revenge. They aren't.

6/26/08-HWD RACE 2-Whatever they are saying Victor did wrong in the BEST PAL stakes pales in comparison to the herding intimidation etc. that the winner is allowed to take part in here. Look at the 2nd place horse as he constantly is worried about the winner coming over, and he just has to keep running sideways(into slower n' slower track surface.) This, they didn't care about, because it was the 1st winner for an apprentice jock. Again, the jock matters a lot to these individuals.

5/23/08-HWD RACE 8-The winner of this race was best. He bumped the 2nd place horse enough that you could take him down if you wanted to. So, they did. The winner had plenty of run, but was a lil sloppy. The 2nd place horse was gunna get his normal 2nd place finish. If Gomez(or probably Bejarano) was on the winner, then 99.99 % of the time he would stay up. This was Espinoza up, and so he must come down. I don't have a problem with this take down. I think the winner was best, but this was not an easy call. I'm just saying I know this call would have gone another way if a jockey they liked was riding the winner.

12/02/07-HWD RACE 9-This was the Vernon Underwood Stakes. Folks, this is rich. Compare this to the Best Pal Stakes. Look at how much they let the winner of this race get away with as he staggers home while intimidating and herding all the way in the last half furlong. Look where he is midstretch, and then look at what part of the track he finishes on. Both horses who ran 2nd n' 3rd are bothered by his crap, and who was riding those 2 horses? That's right. It was Corey Nakatani, and Victor Espinoza.To say the 2nd place horse wasn't badly bothered by the winner is simply a lie. The same people overlooking that trouble saw fit to take the winner of the Best Pal down. I don't see anywhere near the trouble caused by the winner of the Underwood. The only thing that's consistent with these stewards is the way they treat certain jocks. They aren't consistent in any other way.