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What a whacky Derby. I forgot this thread was still up. Looks like some new enhanced footage showing WoW rank and fouling MS has come to light. When I first saw it on the replay, I knew the horse spooked, but like Saez, I thought it was owing to the energy and possible crowd. Horses don't spook like that w/out reason, so the issue became "what was the reason for the spook". If he did it because of the sound, then he deserves the DQ, but from watching WoW in training all week I knew he was practically uncontrollable and ready to explode.
It will be interesting to see what happens from here. I don't think I recall and issue so divisive in horse racing - the last might be Dancers Image, who was also DQ'd for having the equivalent to horse Tylenol in his system. I just wonder if people's minds are already too made up or they will change with more evidence. If the horse spooked for no reason, it's a DQ, but this new video makes it pretty hard to argue against him not being fouled from the rear and driven to veer. 20 horses on that track is way too small, nm in a mud pit - we saw almost worse with Mendelssohn and Magnum Moon last year - sadly, I partly wonder had that damage from that collision halted Magnum Moon's career or added to an injury that then resulted in him broken down shortly after in training......both of them got creamed, finished last, and they were probably the two best horses outside of Justify.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...rity-jockey-not-fault-lawyers-say/1166166001/
It will be interesting to see what happens from here. I don't think I recall and issue so divisive in horse racing - the last might be Dancers Image, who was also DQ'd for having the equivalent to horse Tylenol in his system. I just wonder if people's minds are already too made up or they will change with more evidence. If the horse spooked for no reason, it's a DQ, but this new video makes it pretty hard to argue against him not being fouled from the rear and driven to veer. 20 horses on that track is way too small, nm in a mud pit - we saw almost worse with Mendelssohn and Magnum Moon last year - sadly, I partly wonder had that damage from that collision halted Magnum Moon's career or added to an injury that then resulted in him broken down shortly after in training......both of them got creamed, finished last, and they were probably the two best horses outside of Justify.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...rity-jockey-not-fault-lawyers-say/1166166001/