Irad "misjudged" finish line ... let's 49/1 bomb win

[mike_123_ca]

FG race 4 today

John G. Dooley tweets...
Just confirmed by the FG Stewards that Irad Ortiz, Jr. spoke to them post La-bred sprint confirming he misjudged finish in 4th race on Charge The Line. He was apologetic and the FG Stewards are weighing their options.

[Dahossdaboss]

Interesting title of the thread. You don’t think he really misjudged it?

[bob60566]

Just watched the replay couple times. We all make mistakes one way or the other.

[Immortal6]

:8: was winning that race either way. Suspend him from running at FG for 30 days :rolleyes: or have him forfeit his earnings from that race.

[Thomas Roulston]

I'm surprised that this didn't happen in a 1-mile race, which would have substituted the 16th pole for the regular finish line - something that Hawthorne, which has a strikingly similar layout to the Fair Grounds, doesn't do.

Anything that potentially causes more confusion is a bad idea.

[davew]

:8: was winning that race either way. Suspend him from running at FG for 30 days :rolleyes: or have him forfeit his earnings from that race.

Don't most jurisdictions honor other suspensions?

It his only a couple strides before he realized the other horse has not stopped, and he did whip a couple more times.

His big jockey standing lead at Gulfstream is dwindling, with Luis Saez rapidly catching him.