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Originally Posted by rastajenk
Good question. "The  wasn't going to catch the top three" is one of the sillier defenses of a no-change that I have heard in quite a while. Well, no, not after the interference, he wasn't, but he outran the other two inside him down the stretch. He had a ground-saving trip behind the pacesetters, tipped out at the top of the stretch for clear sailing, and got bumped. Since when do we divine the outcome of races with an entire stretch yet to be run? 
The sixth race was officiated properly.  |
you don't want a system where any foul is an insta-dq, things get messy fast, the current way isn't great but it's the most fair IMO. And it does bring up weird scenarios where if the 2 in the 8th had finished 5th instead of 4th, then a dq would be the right call since the interference did cause the 2 to lose purse money for the owners.
