Quote Originally Posted by Greg Hando View Post
Still too many reprimand's for use of the whip surely everyone know's the rule by now !
G'day Greg,

Like the COT routine, to a great degree the current whip rule is a pretty silly one BUT unlike the COT routine, the Stewards seem to me to be taking a sensible view of it, apparently more often choosing to remprimand drivers rather than continually fine them.
I'm not about seeing people flog horses into the ground to appease the baying of the Punters however there's whip use & there's whip misuse and the latter is obvious to anyone who has ever taken the time to watch a race. It has been a long time since I've seen any driver really open up and go to town on any horse, thankfully.
If it were up to me I'd get on the front foot and ban the use of whips altogether, not as a reaction to the tree hugging eco-marxist free the battery hens crowd who tend to make an issue of such things...but rather because it's a fact that the best trainers & moreso drivers can & do get a horse to roll without ever having to slash at them like a Samurai. I think it would sort the wheat from the chaff very quickly.