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Anyone else notice this PLUG sucking up on the rail YET AGAIN today (CRC R10)

with predictable results. Violette trains them well. Suck up but almost never fire.

Imagine if this horse had to actually endure a less than perfect trip.

Who? The horse that got (wrongfully) moved up on a DQ?

P.S. I didn't bet either horse in that race . . .

While it went without notice that Alan Garcia's whip hit the original winner in the face just inside the eighth pole, the contact that was made late in the race was pretty significant.

The stewards in NY are consistent, they take down when there is contact that costs a runner a placing and IMO there was no way the 2 was going by the 6 without the infraction for which he was ultimately DQ'ed. On the pan shot it looks like the 6 takes a bad step because he was being hit.

NT

I don't disagree that the contact at the end of the race would've been grounds for a DQ - in and of itself - but I thought that since the 6 had interfered with the 2 earlier and the finish was so tight they would've left things the way they were. . .

Forgetting about the DQ....when and where do you think that horse's next win will occur?

I have an idea.........
































....never.

Of all the absolutely wretched 35k state bred maiden claimers we've seen this winter that one might have been the worst.

I'd put Penn National, Charles Town and potentially Delaware as possible sites of Lightsintheforest's next win.

Of course there could be 10k N2L claimers on the turf at 7/8ths before we know it.

NT

Charles Town doesn't have a turf course, and he can't run on the dirt, and he couldn't possibly win a turf race at Penn National or Delaware.

I'll stick with never.