miff Wrote:
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> Gate fouls rarely cause a DQ because stewards
> understand that horses frequently break inward or
> outward first stride or so.Usually in a severe
> inward or outward break,which causes a cascading
> chain reaction, a DQ is made.If every minor gate
> foul resulted in a DQ, the game would awash in
> controversy and many players would bail.
>
> It stood out to me that an incident/foul of that
> severity was rather "quickly" dismissed.Judgement
> calls always going to cause problems to one group
> or another but yesterday was a clear takedown imo
> which would have been made if not for the
> "Baffert" factor.As far as Garcia intentionally
> breaking inward, I doubt it as he came out with
> both lines extended in an effort to dead send,
> very clear on any replay.
>
> Cali stewards will explain away today at 10am
> press conference at SA, should be enlightening.
The stewards will probably try to reason that all of the horses had 1 1/4 to position their horses in order to win if they were good enough. If so -- that is just lame. It may make sense if all horses had the exact same running styles but they do not. Bayern took away Moreno's only weapon (speed) and compromised the chances of 5 other horses especially V.E. and Shared Belief. All betting biases aside (and I won) the sport would have been better if the stewards took Bayern down.
I have been in love with this sport too long to drop out but, between Del Mar breakdowns, crooked trainers, and biased judges, I would be playing fantasy football or something like that instead.
