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Originally Posted by Gander
If Cocoa Beach got taken down, that would have set a bad precedent for turf racing, especially in bug fields. Bumping and shifting in happens all the time and if she were to have come down, you could easily make a case for about 1/3rd of all turf races run with big fields. Horses losing momentum happens all the time in this type of race.
I think a better case could have been made if it happened closer to the line and there werent another horse who came in on Cocoa Beach setting a chain reaction.
A similar type inquiry happened last summer with Frankel's Country Star winning by a very small margin in a race on the turf. There was a claim of foul against her, and she didnt come down. The incident happened right before the wire and a good case could have been made for her to come down, but it was after all a heavy favorite trained by a very popular trainer. I cant believe people dont think who the horse is trained by/owned by has nothing to do with the decision.
How about Todd Pletcher's Miss Catalyst not coming down in the 1st on Sunday? That was about as textbook as a DQ can get.
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timmy that's non-sense , they took down Harlem Rocker in nov against Talk of Ekati , there was a similar infraction a few week later and the horse stayed up. The only thing consistent about the NYRA stewards is their in-consistency