For what its worth Douglas would do just about anything to win a race including putting someone else in a spot. It is what made him a leading rider. Despite what you read or hear, race riding is not nearly as cutthroat as it was in the past. While the overall quality of stewards has certainly slipped the fact is that there is one popular, HoF ex-jock that would intentionally put favorites in bad spots when he was on dead horses and then try to get the mount on the horse he screwed. Another, Craig Perett told me that when he was a bug the older riders told him that if he even thinks about coming up the rail on them they would drop him.
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