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[denniswilliams]

I got tired of small fields, ugly dirt racing and all the nonsense (cheating, off the turf bullshit, constant track biases, etc.) in North American racing. The following, from the Incident Report of the results charts, is an example of how a REAL RACING ENTITY conducts business.


'After the race, M L Yeung reported that his instructions were to take up a forward position. He said when RUNNING AHEAD held its position to his inside, ROYAL PRIDE was obliged to race wide and without cover for the majority of the event. Trainer C Fownes confirmed the instructions issued. Trainer C Fownes will be interviewed relative to ROYAL PRIDE being presented and racing with a hood, not part of its approved racing gear. <10/3/2024 – 6 March 2024 Happy Valley Racemeeting – Race 3 (477)> The Stewards today conducted an inquiry in relation to ROYAL PRIDE being presented and racing with a hood, not part of its approved gear in the abovementioned race. Evidence was taken from Mr C Fownes, trainer of ROYAL PRIDE, Mr Fownes’ assistant trainer Mr C K Chung and Mr W L Tsang, stables assistant of ROYAL PRIDE. The evidence established that ROYAL PRIDE was transported to the Happy Valley Racecourse with a black hood. Upon arrival the horse was attended by Mr Tsang and a yellow pre-race hood, part of ROYAL PRIDE’S approved gear, was inadvertently placed over the black hood by Mr Tsang before ROYAL PRIDE was taken to the saddling stalls to be saddled by Mr Fownes. Mr Fownes advised that as the pre-race hood was covering the black hood he did not detect that the black hood was fitted to ROYAL PRIDE. As ROYAL PRIDE was presented in the Parade Ring with a yellow pre-race hood covering the black hood, gear inspections performed by the Stewards in the Parade Ring had not identified that the black hood had been fitted to ROYAL PRIDE as the yellow pre-race hood, in accordance with standard practice, had not been removed from ROYAL PRIDE until once at the starting gates. Mr Fownes pleaded guilty to a charge under Rule 96 in that he did negligently present ROYAL PRIDE to race in Race 3 at the Happy Valley racemeeting on 6 March 2024 in a hood, which was not part of that horse's declared gear, which resulted in ROYAL PRIDE wearing a hood in the said race. Mr Fownes was fined the sum of $15,000. The Stewards have now updated their standard operating procedures to minimise the risk of such error occurring again. A report will be made to the Head of Dual Site Stables Operations in respect to Mr Tsang erroneously applying a hood to ROYAL PRIDE.'


Should we venture a guess as to how they'd 'handle' horses constantly re-breaking and outlooking the rest of the field?

Or the other idiot, in the Turf Paradise race, that sticked the horse repeatedly right handed out of the gate until he crashed into the horse to his inside and they both slammed into the rail?