Ugh. While I'm generally in favor of "paying the winners" as SRU so elegantly put it, the SA stewards just teased me today in the last race. Had the
dog in the pick 3 who runs second at 40-1, and they IMMEDIATELY post the inquiry sign after the
wins. Replay seems to indicate the
came out on the
in the upper stretch (under left-handed urging), knocking him off-stride, and allowing the
to finish ahead of him.
I thought it was pretty clear cut, in spite of the
drawing off and looking much the best. After interference, it's only SPECULATION how the horses would have finished, as evidenced in the recent Derby DQ.
But the stewards felt that leaving the
up was the way to go, while I'm sure tomorrow or next week we'll see a similar circumstance where they WILL DQ the horse.
It's all so damn inconsistent.
