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The stewards report for Saturday night's Melton meeting is now up on the HRA website. Naturally, I went straight to the Smoken Up Sprint to get the stewards take on the greatest race day flop of the year, Ride High.
Noticeably, no swab was taken from the horse! Somebody is asleep at the wheel at HRV with such a basic procedure being confined to the too hard basket. This, and the rent-a-quote reporting being fed through a compliant (should that be subservient?) media, would indicate HRV is content to treat the public as mugs.
An unbackable favourite, effortless winner of it previous eleven starts by huge margins in clock-shattering times has flopped in a huge way. And officials do not see a reason to take a routine swab!
"Move along, nothing to see here!"