I think we have to assume that the stewards have more aids than we do in relation to video coverage.
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That mainly being pretty crappy resolution on an apparently cheap plasma TV. I've seen it. Either I've got macular degeneration or glaucoma or something...or it's crook.
It really is a case of what comes first the chicken or the egg it is not an exact science and every racing judge or book on the law will tell you that every case has to be judged on its own facts and circumstances.
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You sound like a mate of mine who's a Law Talkin' Guy.
For mine the shoe argument holds no water if they get on a shoe and gallop no brainier back to the trials or a warning depending on the record of the horse.
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That's all well and good and I don't neccessarily disagree. My issue lies with the inconsistent application thereof.
If it can be proven and sometimes it can that the horse lost a shoe and then galloped sometime later in the race there may be an argument that it is a gear malfunction but I agree it is not black and white, then again so few things in stewarding are.
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True enough on all counts.
More and more horses have their pins left in for a longer period of time after the start now some until they negotiate the first turn that is up to the driver this was within the first 200m was it not .
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I've been around a lot of horses. If they truly need such aids to balance them up enough to get around the Menangle 1st turn without breaking despite being realeased a furlong up the straight before the winning post...then they must be some of the foulest gaited things around..and that mare's not. I've seen her go up close, she has a pretty great gait to my eye. I don't like Jenna's Beach Boy as a sire, by and large they're awful horses, but I think that she's that nice a mare I'd have her as a broodmare in a heartbeat. If she needs pins in to get to the 1/4 pole at Menangle...I'll eat my old lawn mowing shoes.
No great drama there well not for mine and yes like it or not Mitchell has to be treated just like all the rest., we both know that.
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True enough again. No doubt that will come as quite a shock to him.