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4 minutes ago, aquaman said:

You have to stand back and just look at how insane we have become. Heres 6 people enjoying the company of one another in a private house, and Nazi's burst in the door like its the crime of the century. This is the level our society has sunk to.

Maybe but why didn't they keep it local?  Why travel to Mornington?  That aside - aren't they all in the same bubble so why can't they "stay at home" together?  Is a Jockey in Victoria confined to a particular track?

For example Craig Williams and Brett Prebble rode at Pakenham on Friday and then rode at Caulfield on Saturday.  Same distance from Caulfield to Mornington or Pakenham!!  55km!!!

NSW is in a worse state than Victoria yet the Jockey's can travel 100km from Rosehill to Kembla Grange.

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55 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

sex tape out shortly.......

Hey Joe, see you on the other site on Greyhound thread, just alerting you to the fact I Know is Mac junior. I would give him a serve, but some little rat by the name of scooby banned me. Did me a huge favor.

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3 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

Doesn't seem like justice to me. 

It's a gross injustice, what you're seeing here is self important half-baked pricks (masquerading as stewards) endeavoring to justify their own miserable existence.

You wouldn't get healthier people walking the planet than jockeys, surely a warning would've sufficed on this occasion.

 

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29 minutes ago, billy connolly said:

You wouldn't get healthier people walking the planet than jockeys, surely a warning would've sufficed on this occasion.

No that wouldn't have sufficed as V'Landys and co have done backroom deals to keep racing going.  That said 3 months is way over the top and as I posted above it defies logic when these Jockey's travel all round Melbourne further than 50km's regularly during the week.  I guess the party wasn't sanctioned.  But then rules are rules - I just have an issue with the 3 months.

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Oh, to be young again. Still, I seem to remember that way back then I avoided spilling my alcohol (obviously I liked it too much) & tried to keep my blood to myself.

https://247newsaroundtheworld.com/covid-19/inside-the-luxury-melbourne-airbnb-where-jamie-kah-and-three-other-jockeys-broke-lockdown/

Inside the luxury Melbourne Airbnb where Jamie Kah and three other jockeys broke lockdown

 
August 28, 2021
 
 
Updated: 3 mins ago
 
 
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The personal relationship of arguably Australia’s best jockey was ‘on the rocks’ before a ‘mind boggling’ Covid-19 rule breach at a luxury Airbnb earlier this week.

Leading hoop Jamie Kah, 25, who is engaged to fellow rider Clayton Douglas, was charged with breaking curfew rules in Victoria and fined $5,452.

It will prove to be an expensive mistake, with the nation’s best female rider, who rode over 100 winners this season, banned from the lucrative Spring Carnival, where she could have earned up to $300,000.

Fellow jockeys Ben Melham, Ethan Brown and Celine Gaudray were also suspended by furious officials at Racing Victoria following a wild evening at the $500-a-night Airbnb on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula on Wednesday.

Gun jockey Jamie Kah (pictured) let her hair down this week with fellow jockeys in breach of Covid rules following relationship dramas with fiancé Clayton Douglas ( the couple, pictured above) 

Ms Kah and Mr Douglas have reportedly been living apart recently as the couple work through ‘relationship difficulties,’ the Herald Sun reported.

The development comes as a cleaner has claimed the luxury Airbnb holiday house was trashed.

The cleaner found what she believed to be blood stains and wine marks smeared on the floors and even the couch at the lavish short-stay rental in Mornington, south of Melbourne, when she arrived on Friday afternoon. 

Several other workers and steam cleaners were required to scrub the three-level property, which sold for $1,225,000 last year. 

Jockey Jamie Kah issued an apology via Twitter on Friday writing, ‘I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed with myself’

Several cleaning crew, steam cleaners and a mobile pool cleaner were required to scour an Airbnb property (pictured) on Friday that held illegal party attended by star jockey Jamie Kah

The Mornington Airbnb owners were reportedly under the impression the booking was made by essential workers according to an apology letter penned to neighbours

‘The place was totally trashed, an absolute mess,’ the cleaner told the Herald Sun earlier this week.

‘There was blood everywhere, on the couch. The red wine looked like it had been walked through the house.’  

A neighbour, who wished not be named, told the publication she knew the owners of the house, saying they were ‘extremely apologetic and angry about what happened’.

She also heard the police bang on the door of the rental home just after midnight, saying: ‘It got really noisy. You could literally hear everything.’      

Police were called to the Tallis Drive property due to a noise complaint just before midnight, reportedly after a tip-off from an estranged partner of one of the jockeys. 

‘Upon arrival officers located six people inside, all allegedly outside their 5km radius and in breach of curfew,’ Victoria Police said in a statement. 

All six were fined $5,452 each for breaching the directions of the chief health officer. 

The four riders also pleaded guilty to charges laid by racing stewards, of ‘failure or refusal to comply with an order, direction, or requirement of the stewards or an official’.

Champion jockey Jamie Kah (left) and three other riders including apprentice Celine Gaudray (right) have been fined for breaking Melbourne’s lockdown for an Airbnb party 

Stewards suspended the racing licences of all four jockeys for three months.

Kah has apologised for her behaviour.

‘I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed with myself,’ she said in a statement on Twitter.

‘There is no excuse for what I have done and I have let myself down, my family and friends, the racing industry and all Victorians who are doing the right thing in this lockdown.

‘I deserve the penalty handed down by the stewards and will take the time to reflect on my actions and its impact on so many people.’

Cleaners described the rental as ‘totally trashed’ witnessing blood and wine stains on the carpet and couch

A two-day racing tribunal inquiry into the incident concluded on Friday.

The suspension expires at midnight on November 25.

The stewards said they took into account the riders’ guilty pleas and expressions of remorse, but the penalties had to be sufficient to deter others from Covid breaches.

Any appeal must be lodged within three days. 

Jockey Ben Melham won’t be racing Group 1 Memsie Stakes favourite Beau Rossa at Melbourne’s Caulfield Racecourse on Saturday

Ethan Brown was one of four jockeys stood down for 14 days after alleged Covid breach

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said he was ‘bitterly disappointed’ with the jockeys.

‘We are always disappointed when people do not follow the rules and we understand Racing Victoria are taking immediate measures and … will send a strong message,’ he told reporters on Friday.

Racing Victoria chief executive Giles Thompson condemned the riders’ actions.

‘These individuals could have put at risk the very continuance of our sport and also blatantly disregarded the broader community implications through their selfish and thoughtless actions,’ he said in a statement on Thursday.

He also warned of the ‘critical need’ for the industry to follow Covid-19 directives ahead of the Spring Racing carnival.

The racing industry has been allowed to keep operating under Covid restrictions and Racing Victoria says more than 750 race meetings have been held safely since the pandemic began.

Last year’s Melbourne Cup carnival was held without spectators at the usually packed Flemington Racecourse. 

Post source: Daily mail

 
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These types of articles are generally utter crap.  I stop reading past the first mention of "an anonymous source said....."

Some of the comments I've seen posted are purely speculative and salacious by people with envy and rampant imaginations.

A bunch of young people decided to have a bit of a party and chill out from their full on physically and mentally demanding careers.   Let's face it if you are a half decent jockey you must have nerves of steel and consider yourself invincible.  All 4ft 11inches and 50kgs.

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2 hours ago, Chief Stipe said:

These types of articles are generally utter crap.  I stop reading past the first mention of "an anonymous source said....."

Some of the comments I've seen posted are purely speculative and salacious by people with envy and rampant imaginations.

A bunch of young people decided to have a bit of a party and chill out from their full on physically and mentally demanding careers.   Let's face if you are a half decent jockey you must have nerves of steel and consider yourself invincible.  All 4ft 11inches and 50kgs.

It also states Beau Rossa was the Memsie Stakes favourite.. clearly not a racing type.

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3 hours ago, aquaman said:

Just ask yourself how much noise can 6 adults make, its not as if it was a full on party with 100's. Just bulls#it.

Let alone the fact that they would likely have been down to ride on Thursday somewhere or at the very least Friday.

The talk from the anonymous cleaners that the place was completely trashed and that "steam cleaners and a mobile pool cleaner were required to clean the place" smells of BS.  I would have thought that the AirBnB would have been thoroughly cleaned after renting anyway given that Victoria is in a lockdown.  Which also begs the question if there is a "stay at home" order for Melbourne why the hell was AirBnB renting places?  Go figure!

Here is a picture of the backyard.

Several cleaning crew, steam cleaners and a mobile pool cleaner were required to scour an Airbnb property (pictured) on Friday that held illegal party attended by star jockey Jamie Kah

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I think this article from the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 Aug by Damien Ractliffe answers the question how/why the property was rented out during lockdown.

"The owner of a Mornington Airbnb which hosted six people on Wednesday night including Victoria’s leading jockey Jamie Kah and three other riders, said she feels disgusted her holiday home was used for an illegal party.

Kah was on Friday suspended for the entire spring racing carnival, along with Ben Melham, Ethan Brown and Celine Gaudray for breaching COVID-19 protocols at a house party at a Mornington Airbnb on Wednesday night.

The quartet, along with two non-racing people, were each fined over $5000 for breaking curfew and the five-kilometre radius limit after police were called to the Tallis Drive property just before midnight on Wednesday following reports of a noise complaint.

The owner of the luxurious four-bedroom home with pool, who wishes to stay anonymous, told The Age she “feels used” after learning that her home had been used for an illegal house party.

The property, which sleeps 10, is advertised at $533 per night with a minimum two-night stay. The owner said she had been told by her property manager that the woman who booked the property intended to stay by herself over the two days. It was the third time the person had booked the property.

 

“It was just in passing that my husband had mentioned my neighbour had called him and said, ‘hey, just so you know, there were all these police [officers at the home]’,” the owner told The Age.

“I didn’t even know anybody was staying there. I called my property manager, and she said, ‘yep, that lady is back, she’s got all the paperwork, don’t worry about it’.”

But the owner said she was devastated to learn her property had been used illegally when it had played a significant role in helping people out during the pandemic.

“We have hosted doctors and nurses in the past when Frankston hospital was in lockdown; we’ve hosted heaps of people,” she said.

“I’ve hosted people that have come out of hospital, people for mental health reasons that have got exemptions, people that have had floods in their properties. There are 1000 reasons why people need to vacate their home or need short-term accommodation and that’s what my house was there for.

 

“I’m disgusted by it to be honest. I feel used.

“There was only one listed on the property to stay there, she’s stayed there two times before … at the end of the day, what are you supposed to do?

“I’m really mortified to think I’ve aided someone in [breaching COVID-19 rules].”

The property is used by the family as a holiday home but rented out when they’re not there.

The owner said she believed people who wanted to stay at the property needed an exemption or permitted reason to stay in Airbnbs.

Health Minister Martin Foley condemned the jockeys’ actions at Friday morning’s COVID-19 press conference, saying that he was bitterly disappointed. Racing Minister Martin Pakula said that the riders’ actions were “beyond disappointing” and “mind-boggling”.

Kah was due to ride group 1 Memsie Stakes favourite Behemoth in Saturday’s $1 million race, while Melham had been booked to ride Beau Rossa. Both were suspended for three months, which will see them miss the entire spring carnival.

Racing Victoria boss Giles Thompson said her absence would be a severe blow to the carnival, both from a media, marketing and general interest perspective, but no-one could be above the rules - especially in such serious circumstances.

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Jamie Kah is one of four jockeys banned for COVID-19 breaches.

“Jamie Kah is an extraordinary jockey and a great jockey to watch and to not have her there will undoubtedly diminish our carnival.

“However these protocols are there for a good reason and no one is above these protocols and it is really important that everyone in our sport, no matter who they are, abides by these protocols.

“The community has taken great interest in this story and I’m not surprised by the reaction I have heard directly and also seen [on social media]. The reaction is of real disappointment. People understood in our industry how privileged it was to continue and what we had to do to continue.

“So to have senior members of our racing community breach the protocols and show such disrespect to everyone else in that community is truly disappointing.”

Immediately after the bans were handed down Kah, who became the first rider to steer home 100 metropolitan winners in Victoria last season, apologised on Twitter.

“I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed with myself. There is no excuse for what I have done and I have let down my family and friends, the racing industry and all Victorians who are doing the right thing in this lockdown,” Kah posted."

 
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