Castellano Fined

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Originally Posted by cmorioles

Obviously the answer is none if you leave it up to the stewards. They would rather just brush it under the rug. Shouldn't the betting aspect at least be considered? I don't think he was stiffing the horse, but at the least consider it.

It certainly beats taking his lame ass excuse at face value. The problem is nobody in racing wants to investigate anything. They are afraid of what will be found.

Your assertion would be a little more valid had it cost a placing or there was a payoff that was out of line.

There is nothing obvious to investigate here. If he had wanted to stiff the horse he could have just held it up in the back of the pack and not let it run till too late which would never get noticed because 90% of turf horses in NY are seemingly ridden like that.

I get racing has issues and the stewrds are fairly inept but everything that happens isnt a conspiracy.