Fridays finale anyone?

[White Hat]

Was at the track Friday and had a nice wp bet on the #2 in the nitecap. Watching live I was a bit scared of an inquiry but remembered what my grandfather told me as a youth (stewards never call a foul in the last to get a jump on traffic) and breathed a little easier. After a half hour of nothing, they finally call a riders objection which draws me to the nearest tv and my fear was gone, there was only a 0.000000000000000001 chance of me coming down. My pal tells me that: 1. Carava had two horses breakdown so he would be left up and 2. the 2nd place jock is going to make the stewards miss their dinner reservations so he will not be put up out of spite. The more they kept looking, the more I knew my fate. After reviewing the tape for the 135th time an excited Trevor breaks the bad news and it hurts. After dinner and drinks, I was looking forward to getting home to read at least a three page thread calling for the stewards heads and found nothing. Did everyone agree on the dq or is everyone used to calls of this nature. Just curious.

[Affirmed111]

All I can say is wow!!!

Everybody and I mean everybody back here (spa) thought it was a bad DQ. Got phone calls from west; same message. Wicked Northesque if ya know what I mean...

Capricious nature of their actions and rule (whose rule, what rule, where the #$%* is the pool..sorry I digress) interpretations makes one wonder who Stews have in their sights...

Oh well maybe someday yours will be the grin of the Cheshire Cat realizing you got away with one... but I doubt it.

[Derbetta]

WH, I was furious for you. Watched the race and replays from home and you were robbed. Plain and simple. Peter Miller was quite animated with his display of objection, but Jack Carava seemed undisturbed. Appears that the "squeakiest wheel" got oiled.

Time for consistent race rules to be applied at every track by the stews., and way less personal interpretation. This "well this horse would have won anyway" or "that horse wouldn't have gone on to win anyway" is incredibly arrogant a decision for any individual to decide. If you take a horse off its feet by bumping him then you should come down, period. If you lightly brush a horse, then you don't come down. How hard is that? Seems the stews rules are whatever they feel like according to their current moods. They never seem to apply the same rule twice.

There was an objection the other day at Del Mar where a horse actually bumped another in the stretch, right off its feet, and the bully was allowed to win with no disqualification. Then they take your horse down, WH, for the slightest bump where there was hardly any contact at all. It makes no sense.

Stews: START APPLYING CONSISTENT RACING RULES AT EVERY TRACK. WE ARE SICK OF THE INCONSISTENCIES. IT IS NOT FAIR TO OWNERS, TRAINERS, JOCKEYS, OR BETTORS!

[Kermit]

Didn't seem to bother 2 players who hit the P6 with that $40 horse.
The $1 cincofecta paid more than the $2 P6.

[Beckron]

It was an awful call. I didn't have the 2 and still thought it was horrible, but the Pick 4 all female Posse won on DQ, go figure that one.

[Wilsonvandal]

I didn't have either the 2 or the 9...but, if I had had money on the 2, I'd have been outraged! If I'd had money on the 9, I might have donated the whole enchilada to charity....such a terrible call!

Wilson

[RelaunchRMH]

As I have said many a time the inconsistency of the Southern California stewards borders on insanity. While I will admit that Self Insured drifted in numerous paths on Smooth and Saavy -- the contact was minimal at best -- effecting the outcome zero from what I watched. The problem I have is that while they (the stewards) DQ a runner who moves a horse over multiple paths yesterday -- the same thing happens where a horse floats out another horse multiple paths just like yesterday and they make no change -- makes no sense.

[Billrac]

I had both horses in the P4 but it still made me mad because it was so unfair. I am 65 and that might be the worst I have seen in the last 20 years. It used to be common because of less control. They need penalties for stewarts on stuff like this, how about life. Had my DVR on so I can review races and I played this over and over, no way!

[Beckron]

The Wicked North, that was the worst I ever saw.

[RelaunchRMH]

The Wicked North, that was the worst I ever saw.

That one still hurts -- followed him from his very first start way back when -- one of my faves from the better days of Southern California racing.