This is wrong...

[FGFan]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Star treatment? Rigging the game isnt star treatment, it is rigging the game. I don't care what either Porter or the track wanted. Like I said if they upped the purse to get the horse fine, no problem. But when you change the rules for one horse to the detriment of others why scratch your head when people call the sports integrity into question?

From my understanding of the situation the FG racing office went to an old condition book to give her the weight assignment and when they looked at a more recent condition book that's when they realized they gave HDG the wrong weight.
So it seems to me they didn't change the rules they screwed the pooch when they first told them the conditions. Really how do you screw up on the HOY giving out the correct rules in the first place, that should have been checked in triplicate.
And it is also my understanding per the interviews about this since HDG had already committed to the Azeri they asked the FG to up the purse 50K. Of course they would agree, why wouldn't they.
Although I really don't understand why 5 lbs would make such a difference on the HOY but apparently it did.