Matanuska - do we get an investigation?

dead last - lotsa money done in cold blood

Form wasn’t the greatest, jinked badly

stipes report - Not striding out.

Sylvester wrote: stipes report - Not striding out.

We know we are dealing with animals so these things will happen but I would really like to know how many of theses 'injuries' occur during the race and how many actually started the race with something not right.
I would think 90% happen during the race and 10% actually started the race being unsound as the jock didn't feel something amiss with the horse or the trainer didn't think it's injury was that bad and wouldn't hinder it's performance.

Sylvester wrote: dead last - lotsa money done in cold blood

If that's the reaction to getting beat then you are playing the wrong game. Rather go and press a button on a soulless machine. Hot pot favourite was 30 lengths off them in a race today and don't see the same outcry?

The stipes report confirmed that something was amiss, credit to the jockey for the intuition and feedback then when feeling that the horse wasn't quite right, bearing in mind that the same jockey had ridden the horse twice before that and run good races. These things happen. Part and parcel of racing. To single out one incident when it happens just about every day seems a bit dramatic, no?