Jeremy Rose

[ninetoone]

It's been over a year, but I can tell you that Dominguez would have felt a lot more heat had the Scrappy T/Afleet Alex incident happenned in today's environment, especially if Alex had gone down, which I still don't know how or why he didn't.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Where did I say that?

However, and I have watched it many times, I'm not in the business of deciding intent and I dare anyone to tell me they are 100% sure it was intentional.

But, be that as it may, we are in an hysterical environment right now, and decisions made under these kinds of situations are usually rash and rarely the fairest possible. You need to ask yourself what his punishment would have been had this happened a year ago. Now, I understand that one could argue that perhaps that would have also been too lenient, but the speed with which this verdict was handed down, as well as the haste people had to rush to judgement, leads me to believe he isn't getting a fair shake.

You'll have to trust me on this, but I have absolutely zero tolerance for anyone who would be cruel to animals ( save some of the posters on the internet who deserve all the abuse they can get ), however I am just as resolute in my feelings that a rush to judgement during hysterical times is a recipe for error.

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Originally Posted by ninetoone

It's been over a year, but I can tell you that Dominguez would have felt a lot more heat had the Scrappy T/Afleet Alex incident happenned in today's environment, especially if Alex had gone down, which I still don't know how or why he didn't.

That's a terrific point, had the mare's eye had not been hemmoraged. I doubt there would be any controversy at all.