Well Barry, I watched that race on Friday and at the time thought "now the Cramps know how it feels to be on the receiving end of dirty driving" but fully expected the 8th V 1st protest to carry some weight and some justice prevail with Bretaca being relegated. Protest dismissed, didn't give it another thought.
Until now, after just watching the incident on the home turn on the replay several times, not only am I convinced that Devcic allowed Bretaca to shift out into The Chaplains rightful path, Devcic gave the best right shoulder into the outside horse (his only biggest danger at the stage) that I have ever seen, successfully unbalancing that horse and disrupting the other Cramp horse Pental Cracker which was just building up momentum. The offending driver got a caution only.
In my mind that is just crap stewarding because it looked plain and simple foul driving.
The replay is here on the results page Race 8...make up your own minds.
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...L060913&ms=vic