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[QUOTE="br801, post: 3011634, member: 932"]
I'm not sure what the rules are in Kentucky, but in New York a rider, trainer or owner can claim foul. But none of that is necessary anyway, as the stewards can choose to adjudicate a situation without a formal claim of foul being filed, and often do after seeing something unusual occur during the running of a race.

In any event, when a horse has been deemed to have committed a foul that likely impacted the ultimate placing of another horse or horses, it is disqualified and placed behind those horses. In this case, Maximum Security directly fouled War of Will, causing a chain reaction affecting Long Range Toddy and Bodexpress; since Long Range Toddy finished the worst of the horses impacted, Maximum Security was placed behind him (17th).

Hypothetically, had Maximum Security fouled only one horse and that horse had finished second, he would have been disqualified and placed second. Similarly, had Maximum Security finished behind all of the horses he had fouled, there would have been no disqualification and no change in the order of finish.

All of that aside, the action taken by the stewards was appropriate, and thankfully the athleticism of the riders and horses involved prevented a potentially ugly incident in the country's most high profile race.
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