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Old 07-27-2015, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by pointman View Post
It is absurd to suggest that the rules should be any different for a Grade I race than a $5K claimer at Aqueduct in January, and flies in the face of the true problem with stewards, consistency.

It is time for the stewards to start enforcing herding and if they do they will have a lot less problems with having to even make these kind of decisions.
about 25 years ago there was a hoss called Concorde Bound. He was a Crack sprinter from Generazio). He won a $100,000 stake at Suffolk Downs going 6 furlongs. Really big purse for a sprint race back then. They took him down and sent that $60,000 winners purse and watched head on down the road. He took his hosses, left, and never came back. I don't know that this is relative, but when I see a hoss come down in a big race, I think of this. I can remember my dad winning a race when i was real young, with a hoss called Night of Errand at scarborogh or Northhampton. there was big time screaming about a foul, my dad said Peter Allen is one of the stewards. We ain't comin down.. we didn't.
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