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re: 2019 Kentucky Derby
Posted on 5/5/19 at 12:56 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 5/5/19 at 12:56 pm to Ace Midnight
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Do you want to kill your sport? Because that's how you kill your sport.
But nothing happened. No horse was hurt. Nor a jockey. I agree that your scenario of multiple horses and riders down would be bad. But that didn’t happen here. The DQ was unnecessary.
Everything you’re describing as bad for the sport will still be at risk in the next race. You can’t avoid it on an open track with multiple horses competing.
If the foul would have been egregious ( plain to the naked eye sans slow mo replay), I wouldn’t bitch. But this was simply racing. I don’t see how you prevent the horse from reacting to the crowd noise or some other factor.
Every time the gates open there is a danger of horses and jockeys getting hurt. You just hope the cameras aren’t on when it happens.
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Posted on 5/5/19 at 1:27 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:
But nothing happened.
Worst argument ever
You are sending the message
About a decade ago I was at a live basketball game and the refs were letting things go. One team was clearly dominate but they had the luxury of being the home team. About midway through the first half I leaned to the person with me and said if they did not make some calls somebody was going to get hurt. Sure enough, just before half the dominate home team was unnecessarily rough on a team that could not keep up with them and one of the visiting teams players wound up with a torn ACL that ended their season and their career.
Refs came back after the half and finally got control of the game but it was too late.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 2:16 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:
But nothing happened. No horse was hurt. Nor a jockey. I agree that your scenario of multiple horses and riders down would be bad. But that didn’t happen here. The DQ was unnecessary.
Everything you’re describing as bad for the sport will still be at risk in the next race. You can’t avoid it on an open track with multiple horses competing.
If the foul would have been egregious ( plain to the naked eye sans slow mo replay), I wouldn’t bitch. But this was simply racing. I don’t see how you prevent the horse from reacting to the crowd noise or some other factor.
Every time the gates open there is a danger of horses and jockeys getting hurt. You just hope the cameras aren’t on when it happens.
The people who are complaining that the horse should NOT have been taken down obvisiously do not know horse racing and the rules of horse racing plain and simple.
This post was edited on 5/5/19 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 5/5/19 at 2:53 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:
The DQ was unnecessary.
Dude, I'm not a professional and I felt I identified 2 potential fouls by that horse in less than 2 seconds. I had exactly zero surprise at any challenges and the DQ.
Now, I thought he just might have lost a place or 2 (or 3), but other than it being the derby, I had zero surprise at the result.
And the rules are in place heavily for safety. Now, might the jockey have been right and the horse just did WTF a 1200 lb horse was going to do? Sure. But the rules are the rules.
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