The 1st thing that should enter a driver's mind when his/her horse goes offstride is "how can I avoid messing up the horses behind me". I've experienced this correct reaction consistently at WEG but not at the B tracks. There, the drivers first think "how can I get back onstride without loosing my position" which leads to snatching up the breaking horse and interfering with the horses following behind him. This happens nearly every time and yet the judges NEVER hold the selfish driver accountable for messing up the other horses.
Its wrong, its dangerous and its easy to correct.
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I watched a new wrinkle on the breaking thang. Last night at KD, a legitimate horse made a break early without incident - just went to the outside collected the pace quickly but now he is parked out with no chance of making the front and no chance of a cheque if he goes to the back back of the pack.
So, the driver does the next best thing - he stays parked out and tries to block the heavy favorite in the race thinking that with the favorite blocked he'll have a better chance of getting a cheque. Which does make sense but its WRONG.
Reminds me of the guy with AIDS trying to infect as many people as possible reasoning that the more people infected, the harder we'll all work to find a cure, thus increasing his own chances of survival. Nasty and wrong.
Breaking stride is against the rules of racing. We could simplify the game with a new rule that says once a horse makes a break his race is over. Move to the insider, move to the outside, pull up - we don't care YOUR RACE IS OVER. Thats how the Europeans do it and i think its a great improvement.
The problem is that AFTER a horse makes a break the driver too often resorts to completely different driving strategies. Ones that cannot be handicapped which is bad for the bettors and bad for racing.
Plain and Simple - if a horse breaks stride, it is disqualified from that race. Any involvement in the race after the break is a racing violation.
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