Shanahan -
You can watch the head-on at calracing.com (free registration required). Gomez clearly came out about 4 paths in the stretch and eventually bumped Flores, but the bumping was very close to the wire. I didn\'t bet the race and had no strong opinion about what the stewards should do.
I do think that some jocks get more leeway than others and that there isn\'t a lot of consistency between steward panels from meet to meet. If you replace Gomez with PVal or bring back the Del Mar stewards from a couple of summers ago, I think the result would have been different.
Given the winner\'s drifting under left-handed urging, the clear contact, and the close finish, I don\'t understand why there was no steward\'s inquiry.
California doesn\'t have a monopoly on questionable calls by stewards.
