One Rule, a Whip, and Two States

Can anyone tell me how when we have relatively simple national racing rules that apply across Australia they can be interpreted so differently from State to State? I refer here specifically to the whip rule, and the disparate application of it by the Stewards in Victoria and NSW. Yesterday the Racing Victoria stipes outed rider […]

One Day? Tomorrow? Never?

This above is the Stewards report from Addington on the 1st of September. The Stewards were going to talk to driver Korbyn Newman about his whip use. They must have forgotten. He’s still waiting. What’s that about integrity? It means keeping your word? Nah never. Not in New Zealand. Go the All Blacks!

A Young Apprentice Uses a Whip 18 Times in a Week and Gets Suspended for 7 Days – What’s the World Coming To? – Sometimes Maggie Wields it 30 Times an Hour – It’s Fun Too

I think Yvette Lewis was a bit stiff here, don’t you? She used the whip on 18 occasions in totality beginning midnight the 11/03/2023 and ending on midnight the 18/03/2023, and the QRIC Stewards suspend her license for 7 days. How long would Maggie get for hitting me with it 30 times in an hour? […]

Lucky Lingard on the Whip Protest

AT last a major Stewards’ Panel with the courage to take a stand on excessive use of the whip but how many other states will follow the lead of Racing Victoria? Internationally-experienced jockey Blake Shinn got what he deserved losing a race on protest when stewards ruled that but for his over-use of the whip […]

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