Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Watch how the driver of the winner here in race 2 at Melton wields the whip? It’s reminiscent of the 1970’s and 80’s isn’t it? Somehow the HRV Stewards allowed them to keep the race, despite the blatant cheating. I told you about how crook this mob was didn’t I? Wanna tell me I was […]
Only two races prior to getting pinched for whipping a horse nine times before the 100m mark, jockey Gary Geran had been suspended for 9 days for careless riding. Then an hour later he does this. “The horse was too calm in the prelim” jockey Geran told the Stipes, before adding that “he felt a […]
The research conducted by the British Horseracing Authority into attitudes of various parties toward whip use for ‘encouragement’ – that is, being able to whip a horse to urge it to the line in a better finishing place – clearly shows the lines drawn on the issue, and I would argue puts a lie to […]
The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), of which all major racing jurisdictions are members, has established broad good practice principles for the use of the whip in horseracing, which are the basis of international minimum standards for whip regulation around the world. The guidelines allow for each country to interpret and develop their own rules […]
Aaron Bullock isn’t the luckiest jockey in Australia today,then I don’t know who is. And if Unforgiven isn’t the sorest horse in the land this morning, then the other one must have the toothache from hell. Just take a look at this. You’re watching the horse one off, or two as across from the left […]
Did you just see that? Jockey Brooke Richardson whipped the winner of the 3rd race at Barcaldine twice on the way back to the mounting yard. What the hell for? In the modern age where we’ve got the Greens about to come into huge power through their support of the Federal Labor Government, and racing […]
How about this one to highlight the absurdity of the way in which the new NZ harness racing judiciary system is working for the benefit of the industry and everyone in it. Driver Robbie Close won a fillies and mares maiden at Invercargill on the 30th of April. For reasons known only to himself, as […]
