If the Stewards allow the across the line result to stand it will prove they've learnt nothing from the I'm Victorious incident.
If the Stewards allow the across the line result to stand it will prove they've learnt nothing from the I'm Victorious incident.
Without the 'relegation' rule I don't know how it can be overturned??
I happened to be watching the race at the time and was of the opinion she was going to be able to work clear shortly after turning and probably win. She was however, impatient and reckless and I just hope the horse she contacted pulled up ok......I thought the contact looked scarily like the ID interference and it ain't a good look.
That's the problem.
The rule is in place but they repeatedly point blank refuse to use it.
Disqualification of horse and related matters
174. (1)* Where a driver is found guilty of an offence under a rule contained in part 9 and the offence relates to the way in which the driver has driven or behaved or controlled or failed to control the driver’s horse at the start or during a race, the Stewards in relation to the race in which the offence occurred may give the driver's horse a*lower placing or disqualify it for such period as they see fit..
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Thanks for that info, I was totally unaware that it was in play. I haven't seen it invoked myself in the dozen or so years I've been following. Can anyone recall a recent case where a place getter was given a lower placing or DQed??
I now understand where u were coming from Jaimie.....perhaps we would see far less kamikaze style driving if they were relegated.
Dodgem Cars again, Bring on rule 174 and do it quickly.
Maybe the American style gigs should go back to America.
Do you think it was the American style gig that knew that the horse it was connected to was the $2.80 fav and that it was going half pace and all it had to do to win was to push out and get going. Or do you think it was the person sitting in the American style gig.
Without the sprint lane, the safer racing can be achieved by drivers being "petrified" to do such things as Cindy did tonite due to appropriately harsh penalties, fines and relegations that hurt her current and future income and that also of the trainer and also the owner losing money due to incompetence and blatant reckless dangerous driving.
I am all for sprint lanes...not just 800m tracks, Menangle needs one to, seen many a horse not get a run down that long straight.
There should be no sprint lanes ever in NSW. It bothers me that a racing manager in NSW has suggested it. I know that a handful of "influential" trainers in NSW want them but they're the vocal minority. They do however have your ear : )
First it'll be the 800m tracks then Newcastle and then Menangle using betting turnover figures pulled out of your Khyber to argue the case for their implementation.
The best all round racing in Australia (for betting, entertainment and a true test of the driver) is from Gloucester Park and Menangle, hands down !
QLD and SA racing has gone to the dogs. Victoria, not that long ago the leading Harness Racing state in Australia is now a distant 3rd and the racing in New Zealand is woeful.
Sprint lanes are a failure.