Country House declared Kentucky Derby winner after ‘inquiry ruling’; Maximum Security disqualified,

[jmyrlefuller]

Kentucky Derby appeal filed by Maximum Security owners is denied

Basically: we don't care, the stewards' decisions are final regardless of whether they're right.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2019/05/06/maximum-security-kentucky-derby-appeal/1121088001/

[Idiot]

How sad for Maximum Security.

It was a muddy track and Maximum Security slid a bit to the outside.  You mean they can control a horse to within inches of where it needs to be?  Not a chance.  Plus the jockey said the horse was spooked by the crowd and reacted.  If it were intentional then that would be another thing....but it wasn't.

Maximum Security was THE WINNER.  Taking the win away was just a joke. 

[Smokin Joe]

It was a muddy track and Maximum Security slid a bit to the outside.  You mean they can control a horse to within inches of where it needs to be?  Not a chance.  Plus the jockey said the horse was spooked by the crowd and reacted.  If it were intentional then that would be another thing....but it wasn't.

Maximum Security was THE WINNER.  Taking the win away was just a joke.

Basically, that was what I saw as well, adjusting for sloppy track conditions, not a credible attempt to interfere with another horse, one which Maximum Security had passed, and which came in a few lengths behind.

[Sanguine]

Basically, that was what I saw as well, adjusting for sloppy track conditions, not a credible attempt to interfere with another horse, one which Maximum Security had passed, and which came in a few lengths behind.

Yeah, I expect law suits. 

[EasyAce]

Maximum Security's fourth win prior to the Derby (he was, of course, 4-for-4 before the Derby) was in similar conditions in the 24 January Optional Claiming race at Gulfstream Park. He wasn't exactly a stranger to sloppy tracks and neither was his jockey.

[Smokin Joe]

Maximum Security's fourth win prior to the Derby (he was, of course, 4-for-4 before the Derby) was in similar conditions in the 24 January Optional Claiming race at Gulfstream Park. He wasn't exactly a stranger to sloppy tracks and neither was his jockey.

Run any horse around the same track on the same day and he won't step in the same place. Each event is different, for lots of reasons. This was a different track.