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Originally Posted by Kasept
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Any chance they will ever tackle the abiquity of what is meant by "excessive use of a whip" as Baze was suspended for last year.
The recent incident at Mountaineer where a jock beat a horse senseless prior to a race, that went without consequence just shows how arbitrary these rulings really are.
It's nice that formal mention of a cause for DQ is finally in the rulebook but until they define the boundaries of "appropriate" use of "encouraging a horse"
with a pain providing baton the job is only partially complete.