Indiana Stewards on Herding

[BitPlayer]

Maybe I\'ve been watching too much NY racing, but this video surprised me:

http://www.paulickreport.com/horseplayers-category/judge-herd-mentality/

[plasticman]

Not one person in the 20 comments I read in paulick article agreed with the decision. In my estimation, if you ask 20 horse players or fans if a dq should have been made, if you don\'t have an overwhelming bias in favor of a dq, you leave the result alone.

One thing I\'ve noticed about judges decisions from track to track is that judges never seem to take \'precedent\' or recent similar decisions from their track or any other track into consideration, a lot of the decisions are just based on their current mood. Not good for the health of the game. If you\'re going to meddle in result outcomes, there needs to be razor sharp consistency from track to track.

Most of us bet more than one track so we are dealing with different sets of judges, quite often gamblers will be on the wrong side of similar situations that had different judging.

[kencbs]

Can somebody bring these stewards out to SoCal and replace the ones that are there now?

[plasticman]

Please god no.

Why do you think the so cal judges are bad?

[kencbs]

Did you see the BC Classic 2 years ago?  I\'ve seen many calls they made that were worse than that.  One example - a Mullins horse coming down the stretch swung out and took 2 horses 3 paths sideways and went on and won.  No DQ.  I\'m not kidding - I was there.

[plasticman]

if they leave obvious crashes alone, doesn\'t that mean they\'ll more likely to leave a borderline claiming race alone? my biggest fear in this game isn\'t not NOT getting placed first when someone crashed into me or another runner, its having money taken from me on a borderline situation. ill put up with all the other stuff if i can just cash my ticket and win on merit all the time when i deserve to win. so cal does that as well or better than anyone judges out there.

[Boscar Obarra]

The dq was a bad call. Ludicrous really.

 By this standard, the horse outside and behind the  will ALWAYS be the beneficiary of some perceived incident.

 If they took this down I\'d like see to what they leave up.