Rubbin’ is racin’.
Good strategy, no?
Both horses from the same stable. Couldn’t possibly be any “collusion” going on.
There was a horse race today?
Why should it be any different than NASCAR? I quit watching that, too.
Sour grapes. Sore losers
Always good to have a wingman....
DAMMIT! The Russians and Trump hacked the race!
Sour oats.
A Secretive Investor in Triple Crown Contender Justify: George Soros
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/sports/justify-belmont-george-soros.html
Just screwing the rules and everyone else in favor of himself, as usual.
It is done in human races and teams. It is done in car racing. Why wouldn’t it be done in horse racing? Good racing strategy. Deal with it.
Boo hoo. What, did they expect beating Justify to be easy? They thought Restoring Hope was going to get out of their way? Next these losers will be crying that Justify blocked their horses’ paths to the finish line.
Well that’s a very mature way to handle being unable to break fast and make it to the second spot yourself. They sound like a bunch of whining Democrats. They’re suffering from Justify Derangement Syndrome. Nobody could catch up to threaten his run, simple as that. He is a fantastic horse.
Anyone get a nice new house at the lake?
Cheating is a business model in some circles. Ask the Bern.
As the horses were on the track and it was announced on NBC that Baffert had an additional horse in the race (first that I heard of it as I do not actively follow horse racing nor read articles beforehand), my initial thought was that the other horse would do something to help Justify. During the race, that is what happened as the horse blocked others path. I saw no foul at all so the race was officially clean.
From the article that you posted, it appears that this is not uncommon. I glean that from the comment from someone else with a few horses in the race that they wanted to have one horse go out fast and challenge Justify to improve the chances of their other horse.
In such races of consequence, this should be disallowed. However, for horse racing fans, it might be worthy of your time to view historical races where horses of the same owner, trainer, stable (or who has vested interest in more than 1 horse) look for such patterns of collaboration. This might be something to give you an edge. I have no interest in spending my time studying horses.
The Gronk horse stayed way behind the pack even out of the gate and then put on a beautiful powerful burst of speed on the OUTSIDE of the track to come in second.
Somebody is a sore loser.
At no point was GronK anywhere near Restoring Hope. And none of the other horses were able to keep up at the end of the race. Now if you could say Gronk was blocked earlier then you may have something. But he was far back and never near the leaders until the stretch when he just could not make up the gap.
Ridiculous, there are always sprinters in every long race. There was plenty of room for Gronk to go from last to second. And Justify left lots of room on the rail. The two horses you could say were near Restoring Hope fell back and were not in the show. So Justify just plain out ran everyone. And Gronk may have lost by keeping too far back for the first 3/4s of the race.
One of the NBC commentators asked BAffert Saturday about Restoring Hope’s odd run and he said that Restoring Hope’s only chance was to try to get out front quickly. (However, Justify was leading from beginning to end.)
The owners of the other horses think that’s the reason they lost. Maybe Justify is just a superior horse.