Invisible Stewards Race 2 Belmont Day

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I don't doubt your knowledge, I know it helps you to think it's personal, I think you are jumping to conclusions without anything close to all the facts. You seem to think this is a black and white, or either/or, stuation and I don't.

I never said it is impossible the stewards didn't screw up, but unlike you I am not ready to pin blame on people based on scattered information coming, essentially, from a jockey.

My best guess is the stewards reviewed the incident as the race was going on, decided it was not worthy of further review ( whether any of us agree or disagree with this decision is irrelevent ), and made the race official when they didn't hear from the outriders. I don't know for sure that an outrider was negligent, though perhaps he was, just as I don't know that the stewards were negligent, though perhaps they were. I just don't know. You seem to. How exactly I'm not sure.

What I see far too often on the internet is people jumping to semi-hysterical conclusions based on, at best, a shred of evidence. Now, I don't lump you in this category at all....but in this instance that's what I think you are doing. That doesn't mean I discount the possibility that you are right. I just don't see your comments as fair considering the lack of information.

No, I don't take it personal. When I read things like, "...you don't know..." I just take it in the spirit offered, whatever that may be.

Do this... the next time you go to the track and there is a jockey objection that goes up before the riders return, ask yourself, "How did that happen?"