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Originally Posted by Poindexter
I understand that the horse lost it's best chance to win the race so declaring him a non starter makes sense as frustrating as it may be for exotics bettors or place/show bettors etc. I might even go as far as to say that in this type of situation a horse should only be scratched from the results he could not attain (in other words scratched only from the win pool and the exotics with money on him on top), not the ones he did have a chance to attain.
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I completely agree with this idea far as how the parimutuel aspect should've been handled, but anything that seems to take a little bit of thought & technology always seems to be too much to handle for this industry.
I feel like the initial responses to my original post are missing what I find outrageous though...the fact that the winner was DQ'ed and now the 2nd place finisher isn't moved up to first for the purse. That's really what I cannot fathom being allowed.
