Absolutely Horrendous DQ at belmont

Originally Posted by slotdirt

I'm glad someone agrees with me on this. I think I was the only person in the entire grandstand at Pimlico that day who was bitter about that takedown. I thought for sure they'd take down Wanderin Boy in the Special because he basically did the same thing, but they didn't.

Totally agree that if the riders were reversed, results would have been the same. Embarassing that happened in the premier race for fillies in the state of Maryland.

If you wanna see some real head scratchers just watch head on replays at NYRA tracks each day at start of the race. You have guys hanging hard left turns or even right ones(if the horses to the outside could be pace duelers) and taking horses right out of contention at the break.
Its obvious that the riders know that noone is going to do anything about it and are exploiting it. A few have perfected the tactic of "hunt and seek" targeting of other speed horses if they are on a speed horse as well. They come right over and take a horse out, noone ever says a thing, never.