Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
AR 132(7)(a)(ii) Limits on the use of a whip by a rider (7) Subject to the other requirements in this rule: (i) the whip must not be used in consecutive strides; (ii) the whip must not be used on more than 5 occasions except where there have only been minor infractions and the totality of […]
H is for Heavy-handed Wanna see a whip rule breach? A really big one? Then watch Frankie Edwards ride on Sneaky Truths in race 8 here at Cairns on Saturday. Sneaky Truths is in blue with a red cap, out toward the back third last as they approach the home turn. Edwards hits the horse […]
I am about to show you the home straight finishes in the three Group 1 races at Alexandra Park last night. The finishers in each race ran extremely quick times. In fact they could not have run any faster even they had wings. Note one very important thing. Not one of them were flayed with […]
Unlike in New South Wales, where jockeys like Tommy Berry are allowed to get away with breaching the whip rule at almost every meeting they ride, and not receive a punishment, the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board officials are getting tough on animal abuse. Good on them too. These below are the punishments handed down […]
The NSW gallops stewards must eat the same crackers for breakfast as their colleagues at the trots do, because their standard of officiating is about the same. Their whole suite of skills was on show at Rosehill yesterday. In race 3 Sam Clipperton pummelled his horse with the whip all the way down the straight, […]
The Graham family spot your author strolling down the garden path (Linda is taking the picture) In 1991, Darrel Graham won the Australian Young Drivers Championship when the series was staged in Tasmania. http://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=33413 Jesus H. Christ. Darrel Graham and I are the same age. We from time to time played footy against each other, […]
Gee, I wonder why the Stewards are looking at G. Hall Junior’s whip use. He’s the one in the yellow and blue one off the fence in the death. I suspect little Gaz may have breached the whip rule. How about you?
Whip use in horse racing simply does not belong in 2022 Helena Gartner, Swedish Racing Regulations Committee Sweden has long been known as a progressive nation in its social policies, and in the past decade in particular this extended out to the its attitude to animal welfare issues and the use of the whip in […]
It’s a rare feat that Central Queensland jockey Adam Spinks has achieved here. Sadly, it is ill deserved. Yes he breached the whip rule. But the reprimand was a bit harsh.
An eagle-eyed reader has just pointed out an error in my earlier story about David ‘Slasher’ Moran. Slasher didn’t just get done for whip abuse in Group 1 races seven and nine at Melton last Friday, he got fined for a whip offence in the Group 1 race six too, the Group 1 3YO Vicbred […]
