A jockey that has only “marginal control” over his ride is going to be an unemployed jockey. It isn’t those other sports, it’s horse racing. Aside from the obvious accident and injury risks, allowing “blocking” would quickly lead to easily fixed races which would undermine the entire thing. 

“Bullshit?” Did we watch the same race? Luis Saez almost took the whole field and then where would we be? You be screaming “HORSES DIE SO ONE PERCENT RICH ASSHOLES CAN GET THEIR KICKS.”

It is literally his job

Also, another jockey/team does not even need to file a protest. Stewards can, and will, review and disqualify horses without any protest being filed

Hasn’t this sort of thing always been present in horse racing? A jockey could always question how another horse ran and get that horse DQ’d for something like this. That is why they won’t cash tickets till the scoreboard says “official” and this system exists because horse racing survives off gambling, which is why it…

Not his first time failing to maintain a line an endangering other horses and jockeys. To be clear, the race today was breathtakingly close to a full on disaster 

I’ve seen horses DQed for way less egregious infractions than that. Cutting off two other horses and forcing them entirely out of contention in a race is absolutely worth a DQ.

I mean, if this wasn’t the most famous horse race in America that decision would have been made in like 3 minutes

the standard is based on the amount of testosterone normally found in women

It’s actually the exact definition of induced demand, as taught by hundreds of civil engineering programs across the world (including the one I attended, GT). You seem to have made up your own terminology, as “reactive expansion” is not an term used in the industry. What you mean is induced demand.

I guess he should at least be glad that the plan is being discussed publicly and not displayed in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.

I always have a star for Hitchhiker’s Guide references.

Yeah, but Drew should probably stay away from pubs for a while...

The Magary household in a few weeks...

Excuse me, Drew’s room is on the second floor and his parents’ house doesn’t even have a basement.

It’s fucking amazing to me that spending at least $11 billion to improve commute times is more politically viable that just adding real mass transit to an area desperately in need of it. 

The takeaway here is that Drew may once again be blogging from his mother’s basement.

are you sure he “worked out an arrangement”?  with whom? who said? all we have is his very cheap-ass word.

First he was a replacement caddy

So he basically stiffed the caddy because....he thought he could.