Stewards ultimately hurting the game?

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by Scav

Watch the replay of this race and tell me that the 1 shouldn't have came down, because the 3 was going to go past him......

I am all for less DQ's, but there are plenty of situations that warrant a DQ. What you are saying is nuts

I'm going to double talk a bit but my issue with this is that stewards are not consistent in their decision making. One time they'll assume horse x was going to beat horse y, the next time they don't assume it. If there was consistency and transparency, okay, otherwise, I still like the non-DQ approach. The kicker is stiffer penalties on the back-end for riders involved.