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I see Byrnes the Younger received a 21 day ban from the stewards earlier this week:
It looks like he was penalised under the dangerous riding rule. The stewards report states he “rode in a way which was far below that of a competent and careful rider”.
Have the Irish authorities finally grown a spine and had enough of this gruesome operation? Even if we accept the official explanation that he did not jump off at Wexford last year, it should have been possible to say that ride was incompetent as well.
Maybe i am being biased due to past transgressions but that looked anything but careless. It looked a very deliberate course of action.
I have no real knowledge of him as a person, as a rider hes odious!
“Have the Irish authorities finally grown a spine and had enough of this gruesome operation? Even if we accept the official explanation that he did not jump off at Wexford last year, it should have been possible to say that ride was incompetent as well.”
The late removal of blindfolds is common place and horses running with blindfolds still on is not unheard of. I can’t recall any jockey being penalised for these offences. According to the BHA 100% of instances of this happening are totally unavoidable and/or accidental. Surely some should qualify for careless riding.
What better way of stopping a horse, than removing the blindfold late and be guaranteed to get away with it scot free.“I see Byrnes the Younger received a 21 day ban from the stewards earlier this week:
It looks like he was penalised under the dangerous riding rule. The stewards report states he “rode in a way which was far below that of a competent and careful rider”. ”
No effort to get his right hand down and straighten the horse at all.
If I was Friar Hogan’s owner I would be raging, horse was going great guns and horse and jockey had absolutely no chance to stay inside the wings . Danny Mullins on the horse promoted to winner was luckier as he had room to jump and had the presence of mind to ride out strongly to the line and let the horse roll on plenty afterwards, before eventually pulling up, to prove the point that he would have won without interference (and probably so as not to have to turn his head to look at Nine Bob Note Byrnes beside him)“D.E. Mullins stated that he maintained his line wide off the bend and was deliberately pushed off his line by Marian Avenue and had to take violent action to get back on track to jump the second last hurdle. ”
Not often one of the other jocks in the stewards’ room is annoyed enough to tell them that the other boy did it on purpose.
It’s Mr. Byrnes again with the obligatory suspension. This time at Sligo:
“Kelly said his mount had made a gurgling noise”.
Isn’t it incredible how many of Byrnes’s horses gurgle?
If the horse did, why didn’t he pull up?
How much longer is this rancid outfit going to be tolerated?
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