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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
Speaking of gate crews, I was watching Finger Lakes' live stream and noticed a couple instances in the past week where a crewman gave a horse a quick slap with a whip well outside the gate when the horse was balking at loading. Both times it got the horse's attention, and they moved in briskly.
Is this standard procedure with crews? Somehow I'd never noticed it before..
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I notice this at alot of different tracks, there is always one guy with a whip that looks like a tree branch, a quick tap on the rear end and the horse moves in. As well i see the jocks tapping the rear end with their whips as well.
I'm with Jeff, if you keep trip notes it can complicate things, far from nitpicking in my opinion.
