Saturday DQ at Gulfstream

[tegger]

Did anyone watch the DQ of the six horse at even money at Gulfstream this Saturday?  A horse that was clear of everyone on the outside took a bad step and the jockey fell off.  The six horse was in the 2 hole and went between 2 horses and he had plenty of space between him on either side.  He went on to win the race easily.  None of the horses interfered with the outside horse that stumbled yet they took the six down.  It was one of the worst DQ\'s since the Allemeuse incident in NY.  It\'s hard to believe that the stewards are professionals when they do something like this. A handicapper might as well pick random numbers if they can take a horse down for no reason.  They showed the replay over a dozen times and none of the 8 guys sitting around me could even remotely figure out why the horse was taken down.  I think a rule that would improve racing would be if one of the stewards had to go on-screen and explain while using a John Madden pointer why they took the horse down.  I believe that if they had to do it for this race that they would have kept the proper horse up.

Maybe I was wrong - did anyone else think the DQ was justified?

[asfufh]

There was an immediate debate between two guys near me about whether the horse should be taken down. The guy that won the argument felt that the fav bullied his way thru the opening in the 2 path that caused a pinball effect causing the outside horse that faultered to clip the front leg of the horse beside him. You could interpret the replay to support this version of what happened although I have seen much worse at GP with no DQ.

[Valuist]

The \"foul\" looked much worse during the actual running than on the replays.  You saw a narrow opening, then a rider fall.  Of course the GP stewards were too ignorant to read between the lines and see the two events were mutually exclusive.  If the rider doesn\'t fall, there\'s no objection or claim of foul.  The rider would\'ve went down anyways.  Another terrible decision by Florida stewards, which isn\'t unexpected.