Cocoa Beach Had To Come Down

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Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Kudos to the NYRA stewards. If this were CALI, they'd take down half the field.

I think the point where the horses enter the stretch, especially on the turf, needs to be treated similarly to the break. Typically, they're bunched and they have momentum from the turn and its difficult to keep them straight. Factor in early lead changes, and many of them are all over the place.

Here's the point: there's the length of the stretch for horses to recover from minor incidents. If they do so, they deserve to win. If they don't, they probably wouldn't have won anyway. If a horse gets shut off because it's been behind, sucking up, the entire race, TOUGH!! Those are the breaks. The jocks need to figure out how to work their way through traffic -- it's not like they've done any running to that point anyway, typically.

I'm all for just letting them ride/run at this point and taking my chances with my jockey RATHER than the stewards. Last thing horseplayers need at this point is MORE takedowns.

Complete garbage on this one.....

If you smack a horse earlier than the stretch and it is clearly a foul that robs a horse of momentum and "energy" to run for lack of a clearer term and the offending horse finishes ahead of the horse fouled. With the vague exception of a gate foul he comes DOWN. No more BS....the last thing horse players need is more races ruined by excuses for why a foul does not factor into a placing...enough of these damn excuses based on California decisions. Just call the race fairly and stop worrying about how many times and what damn circuit is involved. Maiden or stakes, turf or dirt a damn foul is a foul...