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[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Intent, Joey. Period.

Ortiz purposely herded Upstart left-handed into Itsaknockout's path, bothered the horse, then causes the bothered horse to check, then went right-handed.
Caught dead to rights.

Zero intent in the 12th. Contreras was RIGHT HANDED, leading Danish Dynaformer away from Dreaming of Gold. Once Castellano leveled, there was mutual bumping as they we BOTH being ridden - if anything Castellano goes righthanded late and comes in a little on DD, but nothing that bothered the horse.

Correct call on both accounts-

Which comes back to my initial point - why are ALL of these decisions mutually inclusive? They are all individual circumstances that need to be judged on their own merits.

It is silly to say that they were inconsistent because they took one down but had the same circumstance in the next race and left the horse up. Two totally different circumstances, two totally different dynamics.


It simply myopic to hold that opinion.