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Originally Posted by Travis Stone
In this case I don't think any of those three riders were race riding, save Sutherland, who might have been bringing Game On Dude out to get him going again, but was met with an incoming Twirling Candy, the initial catalyst to the rodeo. Watching the race at full speed, or even in the slow motion of the live feed during the inquiry, is a bit misleading. Slowing it down shows who kicked it all off.
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She had a ton to do with kicking it all off. You watch the pan shot of them coming off the turn, and they are each separated from each other by nice margins. When they straighten away,she has floated out a lot. Your missing it, and most people are missing it. It's where they have to straighten. Victor decides he doesn't want to float much there. So, he suses a sharper angle. He gives Candy less room than normal. That was not excessive. It's acceptable race riding. Problem is that (at the same time) Chantal takes a very wide angle into the stretch. She goes from being 2 1/2-3 lanes off the rail to being at least 4-4 1/2 lanes off the rail. People seem oblivious to this. That's because it's very well done by her. It's very well masked. Victor, and her have combined to take away every bit of distance that separated these 3 horses at 1:53 of the pan video. They were nicely separated at 1:53, and at 1:55 there suddenly is a Candy sandwich. It's stunning to me that you and like 99% of people are blaming a horse who had 2 other horses put a sandwich on him. What she did was excessive. Joel had no room to adjust to both jock's moves, and Candy bumps into Setsuko. If she'd of race ridden (instead of fouling,) then, Joel would of not run into Setsuko. He has zero room to adjust to Victor coming into the stretch at a bit of a sharp angle. Some of this floating out (from an inside horse) is considered race riding. My point is that she took it way too far. The bumping would not have occurred if she had not used that wide an angle coming into the stretch. It was intentional (she hit him once lefty as she starts to do it.) This horse (TC) is intentionally sandwiched, and yet like 99% of people have him at blame for most of what took place.