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In almost 50 years of watching the races, I can count thousands of brutal drives. The one that does stick out was at Hoosier Park years ago. The trainer, Herb Brown, also drove this monster named Suburbanite. Herb had him locked in, strangling the poor guy. The two horses ahead of him parted a little bit, and Herb drove Suburbanite up in between, ramming both bikes. The sad thing is he did this again. I couldn't believe what i was watching. A couple of weeks later, he put up Doc Holliday, and set the track record, I believe. Sincerely, Silent One
The obvious ones like Ceba and this idiot mentioned in the title are not really the problem. The problem are the ones that drive in 80% of a cards races and continually make the wrong decisions, with improvement never coming.
If you think that drive was bad. Go watch race 8 at Northfield. Tyler Angus on a Jessica Millner EPO enhanced race horse. He somehow gets parked the mile at 3/5. The guy is just a complete failure as a driver.
Pretty much on a daily basis at every track there are dozens of "moves" that baffle anyone with sense. I wish more announcers were like Jack Gallagher. I love it when he mixes in the "not sure why he pulled" type comments in the call of the race. "For some reason he's off the rail" type always are so nice to hear. In fact, I sat with a few B level drivers years ago, and while they were watching the races with me they were suggesting what a driver should so, and they were SO wrong most of the time. These are not bright men.
