Invisible Stewards Race 2 Belmont Day

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

Sounds fair. What did you think of the non-DQ a couple Saturdays back... Santulli's Monastic Spring? The race where the Daily News guy banged on the Stewards' box door and was told to go away.

If Jerry Bossert banged on your door you would probably tell him to go away as well.

That was a tough call. I felt, if anything, the second horse herded the winner out in midstretch, causing him to bear out, and if anyone should have come down it was the second finisher. Personally, I didn't think anyone should come down....but I can see why some people would disagree.

The problem is the question of herding....and I generally disagree with how stewards see this. I think it's an eggregious foul and many don't.