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cruzan200246 · #1 05-04-2018, 07:14 PM

I don't care what anyone says including the stewards but me myself and John Velasquez was ripped off today. That cost me a perfect PK3. 14 bumped into 5 because he was ahead. Anyone disagree, agree?

Plenilune · #2 05-04-2018, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by cruzan200246

I don't care what anyone says including the stewards but me myself and John Velasquez was ripped off today. That cost me a perfect PK3. 14 bumped into 5 because he was ahead. Anyone disagree, agree?

I am sincerely sorry your P3 did not win. However, I don't feel there should have been a change in the Oaks. Watching the head-on I don't think it was worthy of a change.

DonGuido · #3 05-04-2018, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cruzan200246

I don't care what anyone says including the stewards but me myself and John Velasquez was ripped off today. That cost me a perfect PK3. 14 bumped into 5 because he was ahead. Anyone disagree, agree?

I disagree, sorry Cruz . . .sorry too but it was incidental contact the horse brushed Johnny V's boot (big freaking deal). I think it was sorry of him to make a deal out of it and I love him. Games-man-ship, I guess. Monomonmomonomy

won fair and square!!!

And in this level of race it has to be BLATANT and it wasn't.

cruzan200246 · #4 05-05-2018, 04:13 AM

4a-Octafecta: 18-7-4-16-9-11-5-14
4b-Superfecta: 8-7-4-16
4C-Booby Prize: 3

DonGuido · #5 05-06-2018, 10:37 AM

Well, waddaya know . . . no extra "crazy points" for anyone. Why doesn't that surprise any of us???

Not even the last place horse. Who would have thunk it would be Mendelssohn!?

JolyB · #6 05-06-2018, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DonGuido

Well, waddaya know . . . no extra "crazy points" for anyone. Why doesn't that surprise any of us???

Not even the last place horse. Who would have thunk it would be Mendelssohn!?

Poor Mendelssohn really took the worst of it yesterday. He seemed to get mugged from his right side coming out of the gate and then get bumped all over again in the first turn. O'Brien added that he did not seem comfortable with all of the mud that was kicked back into his face. After all of that, I guess that he sort of lost interest. Didn't hear of any injury, although sometimes they are only found after the race. I think we will see him again in the BC Classic.