Rainbow 6

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by pointman

I agree with you a 100% on that. I constantly complain about the stewards ignoring herding and often doing so without even an inquiry.

However, for someone to call it a scam, criminal and indict the sport is absurd to me. From a purely objective standpoint as to whether the DQ was justified, it seemed clear to me that it was.

Having said that, I want the same consistency from the stewards with regard to penalizing riders for herding as well. I am tired of seeing riders take tiring horses out to herd to try to prevent a horse from going by them and getting away with it.

I agree, though I don't think it was a clear DQ. The 13 caused some of the trouble too.

This is what inconsistency does though, leads people to not trust that decisions are made for "pure" reasons. Based on recent history, that should not have been a DQ. So when it benefits the track, it is always going to look REALLY bad.

I don't think there was anything nefarious underfoot, for the record, but I understand why people do.