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Originally Posted by parsixfarms
After all the discussion, I made a point to watch the race on the NYRA replay show tonight, and IMO, they made the right call. Granted, I did not see a head-on, but from the pan shot, just before McLaughlin's filly came out, it appeared that Baffert's filly also came in a little bit (just as the rider switched from left to right-handed urging) and she shied from the other horse - pretty understandable from a first-time starting 2YO filly.
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That's fiction. You would know that if ya saw the head-on. I don't mean to be rude, but it's total bullshit. Look, the Baffert filly is running straight as can be, and Gomez has to make a quick right turn with her to avoid running into the winners back right end. It's not some act. If he doesn't move her then one or both of the horses are going down. See, I had no idea what the winner paid, or what the Baffert went off at. I just looked at the situation this guy brought up. No doubt, we are programed to try to beat chalk, and half of these guys are against taking her down due simply to that bias. As far as the other race goes(the one Andy said should of been a d.q.,) I didn't see any of these races live. If somebody had started a thread about that race, then maybe I would have looked at that race,too. I don't understand how some people are saying this Baffert filly did something wrong in the stretch. WTF are you talking about. She is running straight as a string when this horse forces her rider to have to pull her to her right. That change in direction (considering the late shrinking margin of loss) was enough to cost her the race. Hey,the winner is tired. If she is forced to stay straight, then she has to be corrected, and would have loss. It's a better gamble to let her lug out(and not lose momentum.) That's how she won. She wasn't forced to stay straight. She,therefore, forced someone else (who was running straight) to have to pay the price for her not being forced to run straight. Look, she is coming out, and someone is going to have to be corrected. Either he takes her up, and the Baffert horse gets up, or he allows her to come out, and the Baffert horse has to be the one to change direction. The latter took place. The former should have taken place. This is mainly a case of guys on here being biased against the chalk(I didn't even know who the chalk was.)