2/20 (TAM): Tampa Bay Breeders Cup

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

61D-13.004 Maintaining a Straight Course.
(1) If the stewards determine that a racing infraction was intentional, or due to careless riding or driving, the jockey shall be held responsible.
(2) When the way is clear in a race, a horse may be ridden or driven to any part of the course, but if any horse swerves, or is ridden to either side so as to interfere with, impede, or intimidate any other horse, it is a racing infraction.(3) The offending horse shall be disqualified if, in the opinion of the stewards, the racing infraction altered the outcome of the race, regardless of whether the infraction was accidental, willful, or the result of careless riding.


According to the rules of racing in FL the horse should have come down. The horse obviously came out 4 or 5 paths and despite what you hear contact is not part of the rule. How it was ruled that Arnolds horse didnt at the very least intimidate Gio Ponte by bearing out so much in the stretch means to me the stewards dont even know the rules either because with the margin of defeat so close how could you possibly judge the infraction did not alter the outcome of the race?

Rosemary so pretty