dmr race 7 friday night

[Cannon Shell]

This was a terrible, terrible call. It is impossible to know what affect gate interference has therefore in a case such as this the horse wiping out the others should be taken down and placed behind all the horses he interfered with. Sky Beauty was DQ'ed for wiping out a long priced Suffolk shipper in the Spinaway and while it was painful, the call the NYRA stewards made that day was the correct one. The idea that fouls early in the race arent as "impactful" as ones later in the race is immaterial and wrong. While a certain amount of jostling is allowed out of the gate especially in 2 yo races, this went far beyond that

[tanner12oz]

Stewards about to talk about it on tvg
can't wait to hear this one

[tanner12oz]

Lol he said it was the 3s own fault for breaking slow..he said the call was 2-1 and not unanimous

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by tanner12oz

Lol he said it was the 3s own fault for breaking slow..he said the call was 2-1 and not unanimous

The 4 clearly fouls the 3 and 2. Breaking slowly has nothing to do with it. You dont give up your right to not be run into because you break slow. His explanation leads me to believe he and the other steward are incompetent.

[tanner12oz]

He didn't seem that swift
..simon hit him with the collusion angle also and his response was lacking....tvg guys didn't give him the white glove treatment...just all around bad for the game...

[asudevil]

Worst no call in recent memory.

[PatCummings]

What was even more appalling, IMO, was that he absolutely readily acknowledged that it might set a bad precedent.

Simon Bray's point was spot-on - the no-DQ call was made because the 2 & 3 didn't lift a hoof, but what if they didn't lift a hoof because they were interfered with so badly, especially the 3. Frankly, it welcomes wild behavior from the gate provided the aggrieved horse doesn't run on to show some competitiveness...so why not just wipe them out even more.

Perhaps the overall question - who is judging the judges?

The US isn't alone with this either. The no-DQ in the Falmouth Stakes (G1) at Newmarket was epic, where one horse herded another plum across the course, and the stewards even acknowledged the aggrieved horse was whipped in the face at least once. On an appeal, the British Horseracing Authority said the interference was proven to help the winner. That's right folks...in order to be DQ'd in the UK, you have to prove the interference you cause HELPED you as opposed to hurt another horse. AKA - it's almost impossible to get reversed.

The UKers like to claim they founded the sport, but they seemed to show little to no knowledge about horses and nature by suggested that herding across a course the size of an 8-lane highway did not help Elusive Kate and kept Sky Lantern from an improved position.