The DQ (or non-DQ) complaint thread

[johnhannibalsmith]

Originally Posted by Andy Asaro

https://twitter.com/DRFvideo/status/873297176956461056

Peter Miller really lays into them and he's 100% right.

I don't know who was doing the interview but the guy is doing everything he can muster to give you a way better interview, repeatedly segueing back to how awful he thinks the SA stews are, and the interviewer stays right on script about Super Roy S or whatever the actual topic was supposed to be. Come on now, give the man a nudge and the floor, don't sweep him back into another dull look into nothing interesting.

[Andy Asaro]

Originally Posted by johnhannibalsmith

I don't know who was doing the interview but the guy is doing everything he can muster to give you a way better interview, repeatedly segueing back to how awful he thinks the SA stews are, and the interviewer stays right on script about Super Roy S or whatever the actual topic was supposed to be. Come on now, give the man a nudge and the floor, don't sweep him back into another dull look into nothing interesting.

First time I've ever seen the CHRB put out that message about reviewing the call. I have a feeling that at least one steward is gonna go and maybe two.

[Gander36]

Originally Posted by oughtoh

I had the winner that was taken down and to me after they turned for home that the 2 and 5 both came over on the winner. Then the 5 kept coming over through the stretch. The jock on the winner was whipping with his right hand and looked like they kept the staightest line.

One thing that the stewards NEVER seem to understand is that if a horse is a half length behind and actually initiates the contact (hitting the hindquarters of the one a half length in front), it will make it appear as if the leading horse turned into the horse behind. If you watch the Santa Anita race closely, the 5 horse causes the 2 to move slightly into the 6's hindquarters, which turns the 6 horse out ever so slightly. This was a "no change" race if ever their was one.

[Andy Asaro]

Twitter

[SuperPickle]

Originally Posted by Andy Asaro

https://twitter.com/racetrackandy/st...31536681705475

I don't buy that. I think a more logical argument is this. If you look at human condition when you pay someone to do a job they often feel required to take action or actions to justify having the job and taking the money. It's how bureaucracy is born.

I've long believed the longer they go without a DQ the tighter they get and more likely a DQ becomes.

[jay68802]

Originally Posted by Andy Asaro

https://twitter.com/DRFvideo/status/873297176956461056

Peter Miller really lays into them and he's 100% right.

He better be careful, the President of Horse Racing is going to fine him and maybe even give him a 1 day suspension.

[Track Phantom]

Originally Posted by cj

Not sure what is worse, the DQ or the explanation of the DQ.

I had Vending Machine in a p5 (which I wouldn't have hit anyway). Oddly, I wasn't really surprised when he came down. I moved on and never went back to watch the replay, until now. After hearing and reading everything, I really expected this to be bad. I know I'm in the minority here, but I think it was not a terrible call. In my opinion, the 6 did come out, just enough, to cause tightening. I also think the 2 wasn't completely done and it cost him 3rd, at least. I've seen sooooo much worse.

If you watch, in slow motion, the line the 6 takes, he does come out on the 2. It's slight but it was there.

To this day, the worst non-dq (and actually no inquiry or objection either) was this

YouTube

[Andy Asaro]

Twitter

http://www.drf.com/news/faypien-make...ded-stakes-win
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These Stewards expect every runner to maintain a perfectly straight course in deep stretch.

It was bad racing luck and not a foul!

[cj]

Originally Posted by Andy Asaro

https://twitter.com/BH_JBalan/status/876530465716314114

http://www.drf.com/news/faypien-make...ded-stakes-win
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These Stewards expect every runner to maintain a perfectly straight course in deep stretch.

It was bad racing luck and not a foul!

I thought it was yet another bad DQ in SoCal. Riders shouldn't think they are entitled to a clear path up the rail, even Mike Smith. Of course once the DQ is made they have to issue the suspension, CYA.

[cj]

Ridiculous non-DQ of the 2nd finisher in the 6th at Belmont today.

[cj]

Should be interesting, no way they can DQ in the feature after as is in the other race, right?

[cj]

Originally Posted by cj

Should be interesting, no way they can DQ in the feature after as is in the other race, right?

Inquiry and they don't even show the head on?

[cj]

Here is the chart comment on the horse in the sixth that DIDN'T get DQed:

[thaskalos]

Originally Posted by cj

Here is the chart comment on the horse in the sixth that DIDN'T get DQed:

And then we wonder why there is diminished interest in this game.

[johnhannibalsmith]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

And then we wonder why there is diminished interest in this game.

You'd think it would captivate an aspiring writer or two. That chart of one horse is just shy of literary classic.