Quote Originally Posted by Harold Parker View Post
That incident occurred when they were crossing the wire at high speed and for whatever reason the horse ducked in very sharply. His drive for a half dozen strides tops was borderline uncontrollable. Was it intentional ? of course not. It was a terrible incident but not premeditated.

How can you compare that to the drive on ITMQ ? Hall stayed in at the 800 with the intention of rolling out underneath Dasher VC 300m later putting his own drive and Chris Lewis in danger. It wasn't by chance or a freak accident it was intentional. A comparison using your example would be if Pierce was in the pocket and Campbell moved up to his outside, saw him too late and knocked him over at the Half.

The suggestion that if Dasher VC was going a little better he'd of held his line is total rubbish. If Lewis was a rat bag and drove Dasher VC as nonsensical as Hall drove ITMQ, both horses could quite possibly be buried in the back straight and out of the series. Hall drove a Ferrari F1 like a Datsun 180B at the Parramatta Speedway : )
Did Hall fall asleep or did he pre-meditate it? Can't be both ways.