good way to kill any interest left in your sport
disqualify the clear favorite after a race he led wire to wire
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good way to kill any interest left in your sport
disqualify the clear favorite after a race he led wire to wire
He clearly hit the QB lateQuote:
Originally Posted by red
I don't follow horse racing close enough to judge whether what happened merited a disqualification or not. The problem though is that it resulted in such an unsatisfactory result. If the incident had not happened, Country House was not going to win that race. The horses that were affected by what Maximum Security did were not the winner. Just a bad day for horse racing.
yeah, thats the big thing, the horse that wasn't impacted at all was the one that filed the complaint and wonQuote:
Originally Posted by Joemailman
i can see why the rules there, if the one horse that was impacted had clipped feet with the leader, then you might have had 3 horses being put down and three mexican midgets getting seriously hurt, but the horse tried to run around a puddle, and the jockey looked to clearly be trying to pull his head back
just an all around shitty situation. terrible look having humans decide a horse race
the biggest thing might be that betters lost 9 million dollars because of the questionable decision
An honest press would report on the suicides that took place after the reversal.Quote:
Originally Posted by red
And other betters won 9 million dollars. This is parimutuel betting. The same amount is paid out whoever was the winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by red
To me personally, it was an easy DQ to call. The leader swung out of his lane and impeded multiple horses. It doesn't matter if there is a puddle.
The problem that horse racing has is that foul completely changes the outcome like two cars in NASCAR bumping and taking 6-7 others out of the race. The best 5 cars are out of the race and the car that could never have finished in the top 3 wins the race.