Jeremy Rose

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by GPK

I can't think of any legitimate excuse for doing something like that. No way he can claim it was accidental...he clearly swung the whip at the horses face.

While there's no excuse for striking a horse like that
there is a more GENERAL CAUSE to the problem and an incident such as this could've been expected.

When they come around the turn at DEL, and TAM (among other tracks), there's an OPENING where the main turf course runs. (In TAM, the grass is cut in that area in a way that makes the horses run out. Yet the stewards have no problem DQing horses who fall into this TRAP.)

If you watch these sprints at DEL, every race you see a horse that tries to take a left turn into that opening. While this wasn't necessarily the case in this instance, the horse was trying to get in.

Solve the problem by putting up a temporary rail. Sooner or later a horse will seriously bolt and kill someone.

The same applies to the mile races at GP and other tracks with similar configurations (the rail never fails to duck in at the break).