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The guy is no friend of the horse player that\'s for sure. Maybe he failed math and figures that rebate players are stupid and will keep betting at the same rate despite the percentages getting carved up.

He should just take all the rebates away from all his tracks and he can see what happens to handle.

This is odd considering the cuomo family, at their core, is probably the most honest family in America. Shocking how people close to him would have been engaging in this type of behavior when he is such an upstanding guy. Craziness!!

Thanks !

BO, this is a good point and it really comes down to philosophy on what is a disqualifiable (hope that\'s a word!) offense.

If you really wanted to nitpick, I\'m sure you could theoretically make at least 1 dq per race in every race on every day, but would that really be a great idea?

If the standard was zero tolerance and any brush or bump at any point in the race was an automatic dq, is that the judging we would want as bettors? 10 minute inquiry for every race to decide where to place every runner who brushed another runner?

There needs to be a judging standard and while maybe the op\'s example would be a dq in another life at another track at another time, this brush or whatever you want to call it wasn\'t enough to pass the dq standard that these judges have set.

The bigger problem would be is if a similar situation DOES result in a dq a month from now by these same judges.

I won\'t disagree that the sport isn\'t run the right way, but as far as this specific inquiry goes, i didn\'t see anything, i\'m not even sure why there was an inquiry to begin with, what did i miss?

if they leave obvious crashes alone, doesn\'t that mean they\'ll more likely to leave a borderline claiming race alone? my biggest fear in this game isn\'t not NOT getting placed first when someone crashed into me or another runner, its having money taken from me on a borderline situation. ill put up with all the other stuff if i can just cash my ticket and win on merit all the time when i deserve to win. so cal does that as well or better than anyone judges out there.

Not one person in the 20 comments I read in paulick article agreed with the decision. In my estimation, if you ask 20 horse players or fans if a dq should have been made, if you don\'t have an overwhelming bias in favor of a dq, you leave the result alone.

One thing I\'ve noticed about judges decisions from track to track is that judges never seem to take \'precedent\' or recent similar decisions from their track or any other track into consideration, a lot of the decisions are just based on their current mood. Not good for the health of the game. If you\'re going to meddle in result outcomes, there needs to be razor sharp consistency from track to track.

Most of us bet more than one track so we are dealing with different sets of judges, quite often gamblers will be on the wrong side of similar situations that had different judging.