LOL!!! Ny stewards are hysterical!!!

Originally Posted by eurobounce

I dont think know, but who the Stewards report to. Basically, who is their boss?

They don't really have one, if they did they would be fired.

Originally Posted by oracle80

They don't really have one, if they did they would be fired.

That is what I was thinking. I like how they do the inquiries in Dubai. They should adopt that style here in the US.

[blackthroatedwind]

I have zero confidence in the stewards in NY these days. I honestly get the feeling they have no idea what they are looking at and every decision seems to exist in total isolation from every other call. And I say this as someone who has not been involved in a single particularly important ruling over the past year or so.

I don't even feel as though they know for sure which horse ( or horses ) were actually responsible for any perceived infractions and they certainly lack consistency in their rulings.

However, the non-dq yesterday was probably the right call for a number of reasons. Most importantly they didn't really have the angle necessary to see either how the incident developed or if there was definitively a foul. Plus, considering they have pretty much condoned " drifting " ( except when they don't ) they had certainly done as much as told the riders they could do just what Coa was very possibility guilty of.

[The Bid]

That horse was left hand whipped into the outside horses path, caused a severe check, and then the checked horse dead heated for second. How does that not cost that horse a spot? No doubt the winner has got to come down in that case. I wasnt involved either, but Im sure anyone who was couldnt have been very happy. They are brutal