This wasn't a question of 'accuracy'.. He did not write as his opinion that the horse was 'stiff and sore.'
He quoted a private clocker's comments saying that, and properly attributed the quote as that of the private clocker.
He wasn't offering the opinion as his own. That difference seems to be going largely ignored by those that have been very rough on him.
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