YET another LOCK goes down due to excessive whipping

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Disagree. Look at it again. She starts to go in under righty whipping as the leader takes a bad step and comes out. At that point, she ducks out significantly, Mena holding on for dear life. Immediately after, he bangs her righty again, causing her to go in significantly.

He already checked her on the backside for no apparent reason (on the pan shot) and had her in tight and pushing her way through entering the stretch. She enters with a clear run, and is giving her all. Why beat on her?

I agree that the horse coming out spooked her but if she's not under pressure from the whip maybe she doesn't duck out as bad. And, there's certainly no excuse to go to the whip AGAIN at that point.

What pisses me off is that, though not as drastic, these things happen ever day and cost horses victories. Of course, you might also be of the camp that believes that not keep a straight path does not result in ground loss of any significance.

Sorry she.
I dont think any horse wants a serpentine
run down the stretch. Man you call that a duck
out, I call that bolting out 7 or 8 lanes.
And I dont think she gets the winner.
But ya never now with that strange run.

Watched it blown up.
That horse responded
very adversely to the whip
three different times.

First right hand moves towards rail.
Second bolts out, jock almost loses
his strap, horse badly distressed.
Third right again horse moves hard
towards rail. That horse does not
like the whipping. If there were
any others close could have been
a real mess.