MAR FIGHT: Stewards hand down rulings/fines

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

I don't understand all why all the hate against Calvin all of a sudden. Not only did the incident cost him a chance of winning the race, but him and his mount could have been seriously hurt (or worst) if Garcia and his horse went down. I don't know how he stayed up (the horse or Garcia for that matter), but there was a pretty good chance that Borel, his horse and maybe a couple other would have been wiped out by Garcia and his mount. So Borel had a pretty good reason to be pissed. Was it a bit over the top?, possibly. Should have he waited an taken issue in the jocks room?, probably. But no one has the right to deny the fact that he had a pretty good damn reason for being upset and wanting a piece of Javy's ass.

The definitive word of what went down was "Unprecedented". Stuff like this happens all the time in horse racing. Are you recommending that horse pilots act like hockey pucks every time they get bogarded? Someone with a more level head, like Garcia, would have just left it to the stewards who handed down a tough sentence to Castellano - his horse DQ'd, $2500 fine, and 6 days suspension. Why did CB feel he had to seek justice - was it going to change anything other than to get his butt in a peck of trouble?

But, my stats on his races both BC days speaks volumes for how much of a decline this guy is in. He can't even handle Churchill anymore, and he doesn't seem to be cutting it anywhere else either.

Oh, yeah, just sayin'...