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I didn't think much of how Mark Purdon on Cyrus in the Listed 3yo crossed down to the pegs when not really clear - bully boy stuff "you had better ease or I am going to collect your horses legs"
I'd like to know what you think of the fourteen day suspension he copped in the same race for "using his whip with more than a wrist flicking motion in the run home". This comes after copping a similar suspension for his winning drive on Self Assured in The Race last month. I reckon the stewards must imagine Purdon is the modern incarnation of Vinnie Knight. My wife, a pretty good judge, reckons she has never seen a driver resort to using the whip than Purdon.

There should me a long queue of wannabe drivers for Self Assured in the Auckland Cup in a fortnight. A. G. Herlihy would be heading the running.