Trevor Denman

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by eurobounce

In fairness he did mention than Fleet Indian was being pulled up. He said it twice and then moved on to the stretch. I am fine with that--but to completely miss Pine Island is not acceptable.

Well really though I didn't have a clue anything had happened to her til the race was over which some might blame Denman for but I think, with this many horses, if I could blink and miss it then I don't blame him if he did. I was trying to talk to somebody online at the same time as the race was going on and I looked away for a few seconds. If you're trying to use your binoculars to move from silks to silks he probably didn't see her go down and then there were so many that he just didn't catch that he didn't already call her.

Sure Durkin would've caught it but he also probably would've made so much of both horses that frankly I'd have probably ended up with more of a gut wrenching than I already got from the replay. Seriously guys, go "this might make you queasy, we're about to show the breakdown" will ya? Once I looked up during a post-race review and just saw it right out of the blue. Some people are trying to eat geez. Before we knew what was wrong I'd gone back and watched it in slow motion on tape to see what happened and it left me just shaking for that poor sweet girl. She looked so beautiful and then just fell. Seeing Javier try to save it before they both flipped was so heart wrenching.

When I hear "Fleet Indian is being eased" or whatever I didn't catch it til they're coming down the stretch and I'm looking all over going what? Where?...then at the top you see a horse moving slowly. See for all I knew Pine Island too had been eased because I just turned away for a second and was probably looking at a different part of the field when she fell. It happened so quick I just don't blame anybody for not knowing.

Street Sense however did bug me cuz I was like 'who the heck is in front??? I just know who's NOT winning.'