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Originally Posted by tanner12oz

I highly doubt a thorough examination was done...gave him a quick once over and back in the gate. Pretty sure the threshold for late scratches on the big time tv races is waaaay higher then your typical maiden claimer. Jeez the only really big late scratch I can even remember in a big race is quality road in the cup a few years back. Lots of cash on the line, tv obligations, all have a part in the quick but probably not thorough exams. No clue if he was hurt or not but it was a bizarre sequence of events. I was at the track that day and it was an ominous feeling. Bernardini ended up being a great horse but it all all about the derby winner that day.

Wow, can't imagine what it would have been like to be there that day. I just had a bad feeling after the false start.

Not nearly as high profile as the Quality Road scratch you mentioned but in the 2008 Belmont, Casino Drive (believed to be the biggest competition to Big Brown) scratched the morning of the race.