Originally Posted by Onesome (Post 2825371)

In the UK, that's the easiest automatic 21 day vacation for failure to ride out causing the loss of a win. Was that the normal finish line at Laurel and was the jock from out of town (doesn't matter either way, just wondering how it happens)?

Originally Posted by ranchwest (Post 2825372)

There's two finish lines, depending on the distance of the race. Ruiz stopped riding at the first finish line.

Originally Posted by westernmassbob (Post 2825381)

I don’t necessarily think the 1 horse was going to win the race but he definitely caused himself to lose a placing. There is no reason to have two finish lines at any track, just put the starting gate where it needs to go and have one finish line.

Originally Posted by Cuffdaddy (Post 2825452)

I happened to be at and had a wager at Fairplex Park/Pomona Fairgrounds when Matt Garcia was riding a Mandella horse and miscounted the laps in their long distance feature.

He whipped and drove well clear to the finish line in what he thought was a victory only to be passed going into the backstretch by the field as he was easing up to return to the winners circle.

Total embarrassment when he returned horse to be unsaddled.

Originally Posted by Cuffdaddy (Post 2825452)

I happened to be at and had a wager at Fairplex Park/Pomona Fairgrounds when Matt Garcia was riding a Mandella horse and miscounted the laps in their long distance feature.

He whipped and drove well clear to the finish line in what he thought was a victory only to be passed going into the backstretch by the field as he was easing up to return to the winners circle.

Total embarrassment when he returned horse to be unsaddled.

Originally Posted by BarchCapper (Post 2825439)

There's already way too many situations in today's world where we change things around because 56/100ths of one percent of the participants (Ivory Soap, anyone?) screw it up.

Two finish lines allow for more distances to be run more fairly at the tracks where they are in place.