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Originally Posted by RichGangi
I'm with him. Not an expert horseman here, but:
I'd be embarrassed 'winning' this way and certainly would not have behaved as they did. Neither the jockey nor the trainer seemed to have a problem with it. Enjoy, you ****s.
The best horse did not win and that's a damn shame.
Posts like these irritate me. The best horse scratched earlier in the week first off. Omaha beach would have won for fun if he was healthy and ran. 2nd, a horse can’t run out 2-3 lanes and stop the momentum of other horses with a potential shot to win. I say potential bc who knows if they would get by MS.... but I’ve seen tired horses on a lead just crawl at the stretch.
This mistake by MS (not even the jockey just going wide to block) could have legit caused a few horses and jockeys to go down. If the horse with his legs between MS somehow goes down, honestly I felt horseracing was going to be in huge trouble with recent deaths at SA, etc.
Why are people getting mad at Flavien Prat and bill mott? Isn’t the point of facing to win. You can say ms was the best horse all you want an she crossed the line first. The horse stopped 2 other horses and was taken down in standard fashion. There is too much money on the line for the owner not to tell his guy to call it in and have the race looked at. Jockeys get what 10% of the purse. You are honestly telling me you wouldn’t call in a blatant foul in one of the biggest races even if it had a slight chance to be overturned? Jocks put there life’s on the line and you are going to tell me they shouldn’t be trying to make as much money as possible. Ughh people are so irrational when it comes to losing money. They only reason people are bitching is bc MS was 2nd fav so a ton of people had money on him and all of these amateur noob horse fans for a day are clueless on to what horseracing rules are.