Looking at the head on of the whole race, a case could be made for disqualification, but more for Coordinate blowing the far turn and causing several horses (most notably #12) to take up. By the looks of things, the stewards didn't even look at that. To me, that impacted the race a lot more than anything that happened in the stretch. He should have either been left up or placed farther down the field, but placing him second was not the right call.
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