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Chairman of stewards for HRV said this "The film was quite evident that the foot did become detached from the sulky and there was contact with the horses hind leg on a couple of occasions. We also believe mr morans foot stayed in the vicinity of the horses legs." So basically the chairman of stewards has said they believed morans foot made contact at least twice. So the HRV stewards concluded that the driver,who drives in thousands of races,has the state of mind to do something different, from what he has instinctively done tens of thousands of times over the past couple of decades. This moran fella must be hell of a guy as ,as we saw with the nz whip rule here,most drivers do things instinctively when driving a horse out. And we are lead to believe that because he kept his foot down for over 50 metres,that the stewards believed he was making no effort to put it back in the footrest. Now i've seen hundreds of drivers drop their foot down,deliberate or not,but its quite hard to get the brain lined up with the body and put the foot back in the footrest straight away when driving a horse with the whip. People should try it on their seat holding their foot,backwards and up, like moran was. Instinctively putting your foot straight back would not happen,you would think it would take about 50m to register with the brain. Thats why you see nearly all drivers taking that long when it happens at any time of a race,let alone one where a driver is also using a whip. And the stewards believed that a good way for someone to allow their foot to make contact with their horses foot is to place ones foot back and up as moran did,not forward and down as would have worked better if that was the purpose. Going on that stewards post race comments,to disqualify that horse and punish punters and connections seemingly based on the above assumptions seems bizzare. -
Maybe Chief had a cow called Durban Chief that he bumped into… -
Was very controversial call, and upset many recruit followers, enquiry took a long time as well, but rules are rules regardless, and the correct call was made, ended up getting handicapped out of nz racing, great article in book unhoppled heroes, story of his life right through to a photo the day before he was put down, even letters to his former nz owners. -
He was a fair way from home, your uncle bill must have bred him, then leased him with a right of purchase, which was exercised later on, he was raced by E Walsh, M Hansby and B Woodcock, driven by B Walsh, originally paced him, but didn't enjoy the hobbled, won his first dominion in enquiry room, second one by 9 lengths, very quiet by nature, a fine looking chestnut, first nz horse to win at his first start in America, training over there was few rounds of track, straight in the box, no paddocks no housing down, he just took it all in his stride.
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YEAR: 1957 http://www.hof.co.nz/images/History/57Dominion.JPG 1957 DOMINION HANDICAP Only a five-year-old, Durban Chief returned a fine effort to win the Dominion Handicap, the premier event for trotters in New Zealand. His performance was marred to some extent however by two breaks during the running, but when balanced he showed his usual brilliance. Bred at Westport by Mr W A Craddock, he is raced in partnership by Mrs M F Collins, Mr E Walsh and J R Woodcock, who trains him at Westport. Durban Chief was driven by W P Walsh, who has been associated with him in all his races. One of the most brilliant displays of trotting seen at Addington for some time was returned by Recruit in the Dominion Handicap, and it was nothing short of a tragedy that he broke just short of the post when he had the race won. From 84yards Recruit began safely but soon became badly placed. He received a shocking run to the half mile and then had to race wide to make his run. His exhibition deserved a much better fate as he did not put a foot wrong until his lapse at the end. PHOTO - There was an exciting finish to the Dominion Trotting Handicap when the brilliant Recruit(M Holmes) outer, came home in sensational style to cross the line narrowly ahead of Durban Chief(W Walsh) and Barravey(J Litten). Unfortunately for his supporters Recruit broke just short of the post and was relegated to third place for galloping across the line. This was one of the finest performances ever put up by Recruit and it was unfortunate that he lost the decision through breaking Credit: 'Irvington' writing in NZ Trotting Calendar 20Nov57
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