Best Pal Inquiry

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Here we go again with Gomez getting the breaks from the stewards. 8-13-08 race 8 Del Mar is very close to the same thing he did 7-11-08 race 4 at HWD. I am 100% sure the horse he fouled on 7/11 was gunna go by him that night. Today's race I am not sure the horse would have gone by, but I think it would be nice if he didn't have to spend from 1:38-1:40 running sideways, and hesitating to avoid Gomez' horse that came over. He has very little time to then start going by again. This guy is very good at making it look like his horse had the most run. He couldn't do it on 7/11/08. That other horse had a run on him, and he stopped hitting his horse righthanded in order let him come out in an effort to bump/intimidate the horse who was gunna go by. Today's was probably not intentional, but he swats his horse hard lefthanded, and the horse comes out into the other horse's way for 2 seconds. The horse can't run straight for 2 seconds. He has to run sideways, and wait until the other horse is out of his way. If Garrett's horse gets to run full out in those 2 seconds, and the other horse can't, then guess what? The other horse is gunna look like a hanger. I certainly think it could of affected the finish. This (to me) is a tough call, but I have seen Gomez do this stuff too much for my taste. I might leave him up on this one, but if he does this again within the next month. He has to come down. Getting to be a bad habit. Stay straight, and give horses a chance to run straight. 7-11-08 should of been a d.q. They didn't even call an inquiry. The other horse was best. That was just a cheat in action. See, he is fouling. They have every right to take his horses down in both cases, and they just don't take him down in either. If they let everyone do the same, then it would be a lot more objective of them.