This is a stain on horse racing that will last for a long time.
I agree 1000%. It is heinous. Country House was never remotely encumbered. They put up a horse who wasn't fouled. The rules in Ky are very clear on that.
The stewards rewarded Mott -- who made an extremely poor statement during the wait by alluding that for the same 1-path drift 'they (the stewards) would take down a maiden claimer on a weekday', knowing full well that Maximum Security started his career in a maiden claimer.
Mott can eat a big bag of horse shit. Most classless statement by a Hall of Famer I have ever heard, and that goes the distance against the garbage trash talk Lukas and Whittingham used to puke.
Furthermore, the karma Mott has laid against Country House in the Preakness -- that burro will be up the track while Max is likely 1st or 2nd.