I wonder if they must take the two incidents separately or together. I think either way you can't argue as our rules go but I do think our rules need looking at.
winner won fair and square imo, hopefully the UK stewards show the way once again and leave the result
Two tough horses and a cracking race and sad it had to be decided like this but I think that was the right call. Well done to the Stewards.
It's completely irrelevant to most punters as bookies like hills pay first past the post. Unless you are the owner or the jockey these decisions don't really matter.
The two incidents are each taken on their merits Blue and the sum total deliberated on. Ralph Beckett doesn't seem to appreciate this...less than pleased in the heat of the moment. I really can't see how anyone can argue the filly should have kept the race,however tough it is for connections to take. I agree about the consistency aspect with stewarding....Russian roulette.
Ralph Beckett will be thinking this is his jinx race. He persuades the owners to stump up the cash to add her to the field, she crosses the line first and loses it in the stewards’ room. He has had a couple of other fillies placed in the race before; hopefully he won’t have to wait half a lifetime to finally win it like Sir Michael Stoute did... Connections can appeal the stewards’ decision but it looks like one of those where no obvious injustice has been done as far as the Rules are concerned.
The piss take is that for all week long they leave stuff like this unaltered, including that one on Thursday that veered half way across 7 or 8 rivals from the outside to the rail and then a little bit of bumping in the worlds oldest classic and bam, they change their tune.
I think he will win the appeal. As the first bump was not significant alone and happened too far out, the second bump was a reaction to the horse being lent in on herself. But here is the huge one - in UK racing did the best horse win and I feel the filly was the best horse and the second would not have gone past. Either way UK stewarding needs changing as I have seen far worse incidents allowed to stand. One other crazy part of the UK rules is if Sea the starts had got second the winner could actually have shot Bondi Beach and nothing would have happened. In conclusion I am not against this result being reversed but I think we need see it from the side of the beaten horse in many more races if we did so in this one. My biggest frustration is the inconsistency.
Bondi Beach had every chance to go past, was well held at the line and its the wrong decision. Stewards have been influenced by the recent noise on this issue imo, were they being consistent with our normal rules then the result would have stood.
Blue,the first bump was very significant..it knocked BB sideways and where it happened is completely irrelevent. BB was legitimately holding the filly in and keeping a straight course and AA lost his cool and barged his way out. That single action is against the rules of racing,as AA knew,and had nothing to do with horses leaning on each other. It alone cost BB more than the inches he was beaten. Rightg result and the best horse is now the Leger winner. All about opinions.
