Reply With QuoteThe stewards might think this is now all over. Down the track this race might face a little more attention.
Just very disappointing....Perception is paramount and that race threw a bad odour....McCarthy needs to be aware he is new to Sydney trots and it isnt a good way to present yourself....I know thorn has everyone talking but taking personalities out of it the explanation was pitiful. Surely, Stewards could take action if they accept the poor excuse of hitting the sulky....maybe penalise trainer something as he put the sulky on. Must say that didnt see Sarina pulling much.
The stewards might think this is now all over. Down the track this race might face a little more attention.
watched this race with 3 mates, all of us looked at each other during it and said the same thing, must have seen something different to the stewards tape!
It's always the way and if someone was to do that out in the bush they would surely get time. There seems to be rules for some and rule's for other's.
Again, the age old issue of interpretation and subsequent application or the apparent non-application of a controversial rule comes to the surface.
I hand on heart believe that the change of tactics rule was instituted to enable the Stewards to come down hard on the very thing we saw on Saturday night. Instead of that, here we are on Tuesday morning with an apparent outcome where, IMO, the one true instance thereof that we've seen in recent times has effectively been allowed to skate free and clear whilst other instances of quite reasonable decision making have been brought into question & noted in the Stewards Reports of the day. What the.......?
I don't blame Drivers for pushing right up to the mark on every single thing that they do, they do as much as they can to win and to get the slightest advantage over the rest they will try to get away with whatever they can or are allowed to get away with by the Stewards. I don't have a problem with any of that. Like Soccer or any other such sport, you go out and play to the Ref's Whistle. If he doesn't blow up the play for Off-side....you kick it into the back of the net.
I was at Fairfield yesterday & saw a clear cut case of 'gamesmenship' from a very well known driver & friend. It was nothing dreadful in the scheme of things but it was something that I know others have been picked up on and fined/suspended for in the past. He did what he basically had to do, he had no choice, he tried it on, and he skated. From his & his Owner's point of view, job done, it got well beaten but he did everything that he could to give his horse the best chance to win & then some.
I don't think there's a reasonable person anywhere in the Industry who wishes for anything more than a consistent interpretation and application of the rules as they stand, in both word and spirit, lest we ultimately have to go down the 'New York City Chinese Restaurant Menu' road of having everything being noted down in Columns A, B & C and penalities being dispensed accoringly.
The good thing about the rule is that some trainers "going forward" means get onnnn! Money for jam!
Yeah Macarthys today, going forward with swift stride meant "trying today"
Beef City Beau inquiry re opened
17 June 2011
Acting on fresh evidence, HRNSW Acting Chairman of Stewards Mr Bill Cable has advised Mr Luke McCarthy and Mr Ben Sarina that the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Beef City Beau in Race 3 at Menangle Park last Saturday has been re-opened.
Was the evidence this thread? What more was there to see then the race. Although it looks like either a rival trainer/driver has dobbed them in or more likely the boys had a punt and have been found out perhaps.
The whole thing has a bad look.
Bad look during the race.
Bad look after the race with the steward's bizarre findings.
Bad look having to now open a retrospective inquiry five days after the race after already making their original "findings".
What next?? It should not have come to this.
Last edited by David Summers; 06-21-2011 at 03:57 PM.
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