Monticello Race 1 2/5/26

[Billsmafia]

Take a look at Winter Asher-Stalbaum winning the first race at Monti today. Winter who has less than an unblemished record at a good number of tracks, passes the lead horse driven by Jim Taggart just past the three quarters. Winter then turns around and waves bye-bye to the field. What a classless thing to do.

Ron Pierce did something similar a few years before he retired--the judges and the public ate him alive for doing the identical thing. Do Monticello judges have enough in their arsenal to send Winter a message?

By the way, Winter also won the second race at Monticello. Both were by large margins. Not bad for someone with UDRS of .186.

[Checked Up]

The Waving" will stick in the minds of his fellow drivers for a while. There will be no "courtesy tucks " for him for a long time. Typical Bonehead move!

[toothman]

he would benefit from some advice to slow his roll a bit.
No one likes getting shown up.

[Racetime]

The kid has a bad habit with the whip and left Maine after receiving 3 fines in 3 days. He made a deal to not return to Maine if they dropped the fines and days.   

[seriously]

It was either harness racing or medical school.   

[YonkersFinest]

Judges did call for him, I assume for that move.

[Raging pace]

Kid is an idiot like his father ! Plain and simple !

[dougie]

I think it was a classless thing to do. But is there a specific rule against it?

[Billsmafia]

There is a history of this at Monticello--long before Winter was born. November 27, 1983 a month after Gilmour and Allen were arrested for allegedly throwing a race at the track. Watch driver Leon Wunderlich's antics in the stretch. It's too bad the horse Deficit Spending was so far in the front that the camera zeroed in on the other horses so you can only see Leon waving a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QM0IlWfhVQ

[Calhoun]

What about whip drags?

I do enjoy a proper whip drag.

[Harness racer]

That kid can’t feed himself on what he makes in this business.  He would make more if he mastered the phrase “would you like fries with that?”