Melton Musings

[Lucky Camilla"s Lovechild]

With all the talk on the Douglas/Jack, everone seems to have missed the Greg Sugars drive on Magical Telf in the Melton Plate. How he only got 10 days for that beggars belief!!! Once again some appear to be teflon coated, while others arent.

[Messenger]

Yep they have deleted my posts again and got angry.....the truth hurts

Daryl Douglas, driver of Born Again Sassy, when questioned regarding his driving tactics during the middle stages when occupying the position outside of the leader Jamies Boy NZ, explained that he applied pressure for a short distance passing the 1100m due to the tempo of the race being only moderate during that section and in his opinion Born Again Sassy was suited to maintaining a consistent speed throughout and capable of doing work in its races. Stewards considered that although the challenge appeared unnecessary, the distance for which it occurred and the sectional times recorded could not constitute Mr Douglas’ driving tactics being entirely unreasonable in the circumstances. A veterinary examination of Born Again Sassy revealed no obvious abnormalities.

So if its deemed Unnecessary and no action was taken against the driver then what is the point of having stewards

I hear you Donny but there could be lots of moves in a race that the stewards consider 'unnecessary' but you need them to say it was 'unreasonable' - and as you quoted, in this case they said it appeared unnecessary but NOT entirely unreasonable

[Messenger]

With all the talk on the Douglas/Jack, everone seems to have missed the Greg Sugars drive on Magical Telf in the Melton Plate. How he only got 10 days for that beggars belief!!! Once again some appear to be teflon coated, while others arent.

Yeah Leigh, hard to believe they 'took into consideration the degree of interference and the status of the race' as you would think that 10 days was too lenient to be a deterrent from doing it again and did not send a message that stewards are serious about making harness racing a good product to bet on