Now Quality Road refuses to board plane

[Honu]

[quote=NTamm1215]I knew it wouldn't be long before someone showed up with the "why don't you try to load a horse into the gate" routine.

I made it clear, I don't ride horses (thank goodness for them), I don't train horses, all I do is bet on horses. I've seen many, many horses act up at the gate before and I thought the gate crew could have done a few things differently. Perhaps the blame falls on Pletcher for not letting him school with that crew. I did think it was funny that Jerry Bailey had a few suggestions on what should be done once QR's initial buffoonery started and of course none of them were tried.

The member of the gate crew who's being applauded for grabbing the reins as QR started walking out of the gate blind-folded deserves a great bit of praise. However, QR being in that situation was incredibly dangerous and a poor decision on someone's part to let disaster almost strike.

Id love to hear what you would have done . Pletcher has admitted that he only stood QR 3 times in between the Travers and the BC , now there is where something could have been done differently.