Aqueduct race 9 today

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by docicu3

Doesn't the 6 immediately lose a length after the contact, only to come on a second time to lose by a nose. I agree it wasn't much of a bump but it sure looked like that minimal contact was enough to immediately change the 6's velocity which he recovers from and is closing at the wire.

How else could the stews justify the reversal?

Unless you want to say Bravo sold the bump for more than it was on Ramon and subtly choked the horse down, the 6 was affected by the bump how little, is open to debate, but because the 6 loses by a nose it's relevant IMO.

This is why NYRA should take a page out of California's playbook and explain DQ's to the public as they are enforced so you can at least understand why they do what they do.....

My point is that you cannot assume the 6 wins the race. The 8 may have pulled himself up because the challenger had wilted? Maybe the 8 stays on better through the wire if the 6 was engaged the whole way?

There is bumping like that in every race. If a bump like that occurs on the backside they never even look at it, right? What is the difference where the bump occurs? But there is a difference in just about everyone's eyes (with the exception of Andy who finds those gems as bad trips and hammers them next time).

Anyhow, I have no vested interest in the race but found the Dq to be much more costly to the bettor than anyone, but why should this be different than anything else that goes on?