Interesting Ash, the stewards comments make no report on how the horse extricated itself from the rails (because obviously it wasn't the drivers fault), but they can certainly identify all of the horses that suffered interference because of it. This is the sort of behaviour that would lend itself to horses being demoted from their placing if stewards had that option to exercise that power, but (a) they don't have it, (b) the bullying tactics would stop and (c) the stewards would have to identify the incident [which in this case hasn't been done].
By comparison Ash as you co-incidently mentioned Dell Boy, last night at Bendigo in the last, I backed Weregonnarock (Manning) that had a cold sit on Dell Boy (Wells) throughout, I thought on face value my horse got beat fair and square and hit the hay. Checked the account this morning and there was more in it than I thought. Checked the results and there was a protest on that race, upheld. Without any head-on vision its hard to define the actual interference, but if Gary Hall made his living in Victoria he would be in jail for life in comparison to what I can only call the slightest of in-fractions by Wells on Dell Boy.
Different scenarios, different stewards, different standards of officialdom...makes me scratch my head (
also must buy a lottery ticket after my small and undue windfall), I feel bad for Wells/Dell Boy.
Replay of that race available on this link
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#BNC15111310