Stewards Ruling 1933 Kentucky Derby : )

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"mild breach of the rules     "






1933 – Jockey’s Claim of Foul
In the notorious “Fighting Finish” Derby, the
maiden Brokers Tip, ridden by Don Meade, came up
the rail and defeated Head Play by a nose. Herb
Fisher, the jockey of the runner-up, lodged a claim of
foul against the winner, but it was dismissed after the
stewards conferred briefly.
Unquestionably, there was some fierce race riding down the stretch. Wallace Lowry of the
Courier-Journal was lying on the ground just under
the rail and snapped one of the most famous
photographs in the history of the Derby – an image
that shows Meade and Fisher holding onto each other
as they neared the finish line.
The recap of the race in Daily Racing Form on
May 8, 1933 wrote: “While the rough tactics of both
Meade and Fisher somewhat marred the breathtaking
finish, probably the most thrilling in all the history of
the race, which was established in 1875, their
eagerness to win rather than to deliberately foul or
impede their rival induced the mild breach of the
rules. … From [the eighth pole] to the end the two
leaders and riders put on as furious and rough a
stretch duel as the race has known.”





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A great input to us members...thank you....but both jocks just did not want to fall off by themselves if one of the horses tripped ..🙂...and the foul should not have even entered into it because of that reason for making the claim, 🙂...and the rules were different then and Stewart's were TRUSTED.....makes a big difference....

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Thanks again for your home work etc...very nice...