Saratoga Robbery

[Calzone Lord]

Rosie is the queen of the frivolous foul claim. She should have a bright future as an actress, one day.

She must be convincing on the phone, too. The stewards looked at Startup Nation, for about five minutes, after her preposterous foul claim in the With Anticipation stakes earlier in the week.

Alvarado's horse did come over and intimidate her, even brushed with her horse, but it was a sell-job on her part to stop riding.

It's a simple solution:

* The incident in question didn't have any impact on the outcome of the race. It didn't cost anyone a placing. The horse who was intimidated in deep stretch still managed to finish 2nd.

* Leave the winner up. Fine or suspend the jock.

That way, the jock is properly punished. However, the bettors who played the winner, the trainer of the winner, and the owner of the winner aren't punished.

Unfortunately, if the incident does result in a horse being cost a placing, there has to be a DQ.

The stewards have been great this meet, imo. But this was the wrong call, today.

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Rosie is the queen of the frivolous foul claim. She should have a bright future as an actress, one day.

She must be convincing on the phone, too. The stewards looked at Startup Nation, for about five minutes, after her preposterous foul claim in the With Anticipation stakes earlier in the week.

Alvarado's horse did come over and intimidate her, even brushed with her horse, but it was a sell-job on her part to stop riding.

It's a simple solution:

* The incident in question didn't have any impact on the outcome of the race. It didn't cost anyone a placing. The horse who was intimidated in deep stretch still managed to finish 2nd.

* Leave the winner up. Fine or suspend the jock.

That way, the jock is properly punished. However, the bettors who played the winner, the trainer of the winner, and the owner of the winner aren't punished.

Unfortunately, if the incident does result in a horse being cost a placing, there has to be a DQ.

The stewards have been great this meet, imo. But this was the wrong call, today.

DId you read the drf article with her comments about the Startup Nation race? She said Joel put all the other jockeys in danger.

[ateamstupid]

Could've been retribution for Junior's ridiculous comments about the non-DQ in the Woodward.

[Storm Cadet]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Rosie is the queen of the frivolous foul claim.

Calzone, today's claim of foul was a trainer objection...not Rosie! But she must be good on the phone!

[ranger5830]

Looking at the head on of the whole race, a case could be made for disqualification, but more for Coordinate blowing the far turn and causing several horses (most notably #12) to take up. By the looks of things, the stewards didn't even look at that. To me, that impacted the race a lot more than anything that happened in the stretch. He should have either been left up or placed farther down the field, but placing him second was not the right call.