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All is forgiven VVV clearly your eyes are gone the link to the head on is in my post.

If you can not see that I am not sure watching the replay will help.

[VVV] Indeed.
My apologies VOR, for both assuming that the link you provided would just show me a replay of the race I had already seen...and also for being so slow off the pitch with regard to Dale & the Trots TV Crew having supplied the Stewards footage of the race.
Thankyou VOR & well done Dale & Co.
That being said, it doesn't change my view that the Protest should've instead been upheld.
Clearly the winner was reined up the track as the challenge came from the outside & then reined down the track when another challenge came up the pylons.
The Stewards handed out 6 weeks so it was no victim of circumstance effort.
Surely if that's bad enough to warrant 6 weeks holiday alone it also establishes intent?
Therefore, the space to the winner's inside is not the issue & it should never be seen as a mitigating aspect.
Instead, the driver of the winner making a Bird of it...making 100% sure that there wasn't going to be any room by way of looking back & steering down to the pylons & causing the pylons horse to break was and is the ONLY factor to consider.
That VOR...is why it should've been upheld.

I don't blame Drivers for doing everything they can and then some, for trying to get away with whatever they can get away with, in a race as it's not their job to govern themselves.
It's their job to do whatever they possibly can to win. It's the Steward's job to Police it all.

What really shits me however is the PREHISTORIC nature of the ongoing approach to Interference in Australia. That horse would not have have had a Snowball's chance in Hell of holding onto the race in the US or CAN.
Up there, you clip a horse like that, room or no room, and you're gone.
US & CAN Judges would have automatically taken the winner down, it would never have required a 4th against 1st protest.
VOR, Re: Relegation/Protests...they are if not one & the same then they at the very least inextricably linked surely? Stewards Relegate, Participants Protest...hopefully to the same ends (wishful thinking?)