Mark Zahra’s $50 000 fine and 7 meeting suspension for striking Without A Fight with the whip 9 times prior to the 100m mark in the Caulfield Cup is the 2nd most severe penalty that I can ever remember being handed down to a rider for breaching the whip rule, behind only Kerrin McEvoy’s massive $50 000 fine and 13 meeting suspension for whipping runner-up Tiger Moth 13 times before the mark in the 202o Melbourne Cup.
A Tale of Two Cities, One Whip Strike and Fifty Grand
