Real Quiet would have come down. It would have been a huge positive moment for the sport: in front of a world convinced that horse racing is at least semi-corrupt, and in which horse racing seemingly had everything to gain by leaving RQ up, the stewards take RQ down because (as everyone saw in the head-on shot) it was the right thing to do.
No way to prove it, but had that actually occurred, I think the game would be marginally more popular today.
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