All The Aces Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 M Cameron (LICKETY SPLIT) - Admitted a charge of using the whip in three consecutive strides followed by a further four consecutive strides after a pause of one stride on his mount LICKETY SPLIT inside the 100 metres. After considering submissions the Adjudicative Committee suspended M Cameron’s licence to ride in races from the conclusion of racing on Saturday 26 March up to and including racing on Saturday 9 April, 8 national riding days and imposed a fine of $3,500 Margin a nose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomed Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 10 hours ago, All The Aces said: M Cameron (LICKETY SPLIT) - Admitted a charge of using the whip in three consecutive strides followed by a further four consecutive strides after a pause of one stride on his mount LICKETY SPLIT inside the 100 metres. After considering submissions the Adjudicative Committee suspended M Cameron’s licence to ride in races from the conclusion of racing on Saturday 26 March up to and including racing on Saturday 9 April, 8 national riding days and imposed a fine of $3,500 Margin a nose! It does seem very unfair if one jockey follows the rules and gets beaten a nose and another breaks the rules and wins by a nose. Bad in any race, but especially a group 1. Of course if they did start relegating or disqualifying horses because of this rule there would be an outcry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 All easily fixed -just ban whips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freda Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 I'm not in favour of completely banning whips. There will always be the odd smarty pants who has worked out that they can cruise home untouched, without so much as a flick to say, wake up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomed Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Freda said: I'm not in favour of completely banning whips. There will always be the odd smarty pants who has worked out that they can cruise home untouched, without so much as a flick to say, wake up! I can recall a horse at Riccarton a few years ago that cruised to the lead under its own steam inside the 200m, the jockey then hit it with the whip and it stopped dead. Almost as if it was saying "I'm doing perfectly ok as it is, don't try that rubbish on me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 3 hours ago, nod said: All easily fixed -just ban whips Not before the Ozzie's do. Punters will leave in droves otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All The Aces Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 With no relegation under the current rules I would be saying to my jockey re the whip in a big race. If you think you can win go for it and I will pay any fine etc you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 On 14/03/2022 at 12:40 PM, Chief Stipe said: Not before the Ozzie's do. Punters will leave in droves otherwise. Don't see why. I'd probably bet more if I knew there was a level playing field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 17 hours ago, curious said: Don't see why. I'd probably bet more if I knew there was a level playing field. You missed the other part of my statement or are you Australian? Getting out of step with the Ozzie market would be detrimental to revenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Your statement was 'not before the Ozzies do' I disagree. Think we would gain more by acting proactively first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 24 minutes ago, curious said: Think we would gain more by acting proactively first. We wouldn't gain anything in my opinion. NZ can only be a follower on this aspect of racing. If NZ was really focused on horse welfare AND punter revenue it would be putting all its efforts into providing and fair tracks. Anything else is just virtue signalling grandstanding hypocrisy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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