No Shame

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by JimmyEllis

The filly got tired and drifted but JV was right up on her and Geroux couldn't whip as freely as he'd have wanted. In fact he came very close to hitting Curalina with his whip. If it's a requirement that tired horses run straight in the stretch, then add lanes and dq those coming out of them. If not, then allow them to drift a path and don't give the benefit to jocks that crowd them. If a jock can't freely whip a tired horse he shouldn't be punished.
They allow all that herding and they take down horses that drift a path.

JV was straight as an arrow and going left handed. I dont think he tried to purposely crowd Geroux. It was just unfortunate that Chatterbox really got out at the wire (despite Geroux being right handed the entire length of the stretch), obviously that was the reason for the DQ.

I understand the herding argument, but I really feel like it's a totally separate argument. This was just interference near the wire with a horse that lost a head bob.