Maximum safety jockey releases Derby's Replay Replay

A senior jockey security lawyer said that she gave a video to race stewards who met Friday to consider the disqualification of the Kentucky Derby.

Ann Oldfather said that the stewards had taken the video, prepared with the help of a video footage of NBC on YouTube, to demonstrate that Luis Saez was not guilty of "abusive conduct" .

"They did not undertake to review it but said they would think about it," Oldfather said Friday night. "I'm sure they want to do the right thing."

Saez was not present at the examination session. The stewards of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission have not yet published the findings of fault in the race.

"We knew that Luis was being examined for reasons of discipline and we wanted to submit to the stewards a vision that they, to my knowledge, had not examined," said Oldfather.

Oldfather said the prepared video was using slow motion and stoppage of action to highlight some points that she felt refuted the claims of Mark Casse, War of Will coach, that Maximum Security would have maneuvered on the track as a "drunk driver".

After the May 4th derby, the stewards ruled that Maximum Security, who had crossed the finish line first, had interfered with other horses on the ground and disqualified her. Country House, who crossed the finish line in second place, was raised to the circle of winners.

Casse, in an interview this week, said his second-by-second analysis showed Maximum Security and Saez turning right twice, ending War of Will.

Oldfather said that the horse, under the jockey Tyler Gaffalione, "started all that. And (Saez) is lucky that the horse has not left the track … It's laughable to see the video. "

But Oldfather said, "The video shows that maximum security has been enhanced by War of Will and, according to the available footage, she was hit by War of Will's left knee on the upper leg (maximum security) above his hock and what seems to be in his groin. And it was only after these two events that he jumped in the middle of the track to get away from the assault coming from behind. "

After the race commission refused a hearing to appeal the decision earlier this week, Gary and Mary West, the owners of Maximum Security, are considering filing a lawsuit, according to their statement released Thursday night.

"We believe that with a fair and proper hearing of our case, maximum security will be restored as the legitimate winner of this year's Kentucky Derby," they said.