I wouldn’t have been happy but I don’t know that I would have filed a protest; honestly. I raced motorcycles (flat-track) and did I feel cheated and/or abused sometimes? Sure did. But like the old saying goes that’s why its called racing and not winning. I just figured there was always the next race. Yeah, I know - even though I was ranked as a professional there was not this kind of money on the line. But sometimes excrement occurs and you just deal with it. Sloppy tracks, someone with no chance foiling your big chance, its all just another day at the office.
Mediaite has a story that says the Derby winner will not be in the next race.
Curiously, the story identifies the horse as “County House”. One letter can make a pretty big difference. Sounds like a prison.
Yes. I’ve seen the Derby winner referred to as “Country Horse”.
Thought I’d post this here, as I suspected most folk interested in the Derby were here:
How does it work with a single trainer (Baffert) training multiple horses (3)? If I know how each horse has been doing in training, their tendencies/preferences/weaknesses, how do I not play one horse off the other?
They make a big deal about the trainer giving the jokey last minute instructions. Wouldn’t Baffert be able to tell the rider of one horse which strategy would best beat the other 2 he trains? In fact, doesn’t he owe it to his clients (the horses’ owners) to give each horse the best chance to win?
Just strikes me as a potential conflict of interest.
Unlike a human race, you have 1,200 pound horses running at 40 miles per hour. A veer like what happened has a very real chance of dead horses and injured jockies.
Just so.
I’m not following your argument; the track cares not at all on the odds of a race winner. It merely collects the money from the bettors, skims a percentage off the top (giving half to the state) and distributes the rest to to those holding the winning ticket. If bunches of people were right in thinking a horse would win, the pool is divvied in bunches of ways and short odds result. If only a few people thought the horse would win, the exact same amount is divided into only a handful of piles and the ticket holders get a big payoff.
It’s not like a casino bragging that some guy won a million bucks playing a slot machine so, maybe you can, too. Andy Beyer was right when he called handicapping the world’s toughest way to make an easy living.
Here is similar situation at Del Mar where contact did occur, a horse was killed, and two jockies injured. Maybe you want to tell those snowflakes to suck it up, Lucas?