Thanks, RBE. Bigs, I agree that the inquiry should be more about the offer for purchase than the ride. But why then are they citing Rosorio for three possible violations for the ride? The obvious implication is that Rosario intentionally blew the ride in order to devalue the horse.
However, Glenney's explanation is ridiculous to me, I told him to keep the horse outside of horses and he went inside? This stuff happens every day, how many times have we seen a jock ride a horse against what anyone on paper can see is the horses normal style? Are they going to go back and review all those races? This is complete BS!
Sure, it is a bit odd that Vic inquired about purchasing the horse, but maybe Rosario saw something in the horse in the loss. I can't confirm this, but I have to imagine that jocks often see something in a horse and relate to their agent/trainer that a certain horse might be a good purchase and move up with a better trainer. I can imagine that JV has ridden a horse by a smaller trainer and said to Pletcher that he might want to get his hands on the horse and could be a good purchase and move up under Todd.
Unless Rosario was obviously strangling the horse (ala Easy Money style) or obvioulsy making no effort on the horse, or they have some other evidence of collusion, I can't see how they can cite him for a violation. Sounds to me like this will go nowhere and Glenney just has sour grapes. I do think that other jocks will be wary of a guy who complains about this type of a ride without more evidence that Rosario stiffed the horse.
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