[Nepeta]

One of them has sour grapes and you think this is beyond human example or emotion? How ignorant. Maybe there is a snobbiness that attends to horse racing the rest of the world does not care to indulge.

It's not snobbiness. It's good sportsmanship and class. Trashing one's opposition is generally in poor taste in any sport; proving one's team or horse is better is BEST done by winning, which speaks for itself. Trash talk is for trashy people.

[Fester Chugabrew]

"Trashing one's opposition is generally in poor taste in any sport . . ."

Feel free to launch an inquisition into what is arguably a normal course of events in sports: certain ones with high stakes get mouthy. What a boring spectacle sports would be if all the players were afraid to get a little mud on their tutus.