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Originally Posted by HorsemenHeist
Multiple photos sure make it appear like the horse was wearing toe grabs.
It wouldn't shock me if there was such incompetence among paddock employees that it wasn't caught before the race. Wearing toe grabs is much more of an advantage than a jockey leaning to one side in the stretch.
I guess the question is if the rules stipulate a DQ for a violation like this that isn't caught before the race. If caught before the race, I think horse is allowed to run with them removed? rather than automatically scratched?
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In order to pull that off you would have to be in cahoots with the paddock judge to ignore the shoes, you couldnt send them over with the "hope" that you were not going to get caught.
In addition he was the chalk, what is the point in this scenario.
