Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You can see the whip rule in harness racing described clearly above. A driver can’t use their elbow or shoulder to generate force when using the whip, they must not raise their arm above 45% when using the whip, and they must not use it with force. If they do the Stewards have the discretionary […]
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 […]
The Kiwi stewards and integrity board are far more strict on the application of the whip rule than their cousins over the ditch here in Australia. That was proven again on Friday night at Addington when Mark Purdon copped an 8 meeting suspension for using the whip on his pacer Chase A Dream with more […]
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!
Did you say the recently retired Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny (ponounced Dumesy)? Give yourself a gold star. John Dumesny drove 5 winners, and by his own reckoning was at one stage equal leading driver in the Western Districts area. Very briefly. Here is another winner Dumesny drove. I am watching a ‘A Life […]
Sometimes I look around and shake my head and wonder if Richard Callander and I are living in the same world. Today is one of them. Richie wrote what you see above in his Racenet column this week. It is an absolute load of piffle, ridiculous nonsense, and tripe. His argument appears to be that […]
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? […]
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 […]
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
“These new guidelines will provide clear penalties for breaches of the whip rules,” said Mr Chadwick. “This will assist in providing greater consistency to the penalties applied and it’ll also ensure that riders are well aware of the potential penalties for any breaches of the whip rules. “The new guidelines will also significantly reduce the use […]
