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Chief its ok , I kinda got lost as well , its bloody Corm trying to start another whip war …I swear that bloke ignores this outpost most of the year …but as soon as a whip thread appears ….he’s like a bee to Honey ….
Some folks eh
You’re right cormack, Zarkandar would have won but the jockey and/or horse didn’t deserve to win whereas Jacob and Reve De Sivola did.
Twiston Davies rode a bad race and deserved to lose.And just think what you would be taking away from the spectacle and excitement of the race. The commentary would be "And Zarkandar takes it up despite the jockey going to the front far too soon but it’s irrelevant as no one else has a whip so he wins easily" It would be boring.
steeplechasing has told you todays whip is more or less a feather duster so what’s your problem with it? Do you think it hurts the horses? Do horses still get marked with it these days?
If the whips are so soft then why do we need whip rules ? Either the rules are there and are enforced with disqualification for contraventions or there are no whip rules at all.
I get the public don’t like driving finishes but races like lester winning the Derby on the minstrel are just magnificent spectacles and are etched into racing history. People forget that most horses are nearly ten times the weight of the jockey so the idea of the whip,as they are today,inflicting pain is not based in reality.
Interesting take on physics that.
I have nipped down to my cellar and whipped both my dwarfs back and my giant blokes back.
They both said " yeeeeaaaaoooooowwwww".
Conclusion – inconclusive.
I do not want to come across as a whip ‘apologist’. I think it is a big image/PR problem for the sport, and other than letting racegoers handle the whip themselves to get some perspective, I don’t know how to solve the problem.
It’s emotive and always will be, I think. But the facts should not be ignored. In calendar year 2014, until 17th December, there were 605 breaches of the whip rules – one horse was marked.
I’m told that prior to the introduction of the current whip, around 20 horses a year were marked.
Counting the ‘old’ whip (the one many still perceive to be in use) as a 10 in the measure of its likelihood to injure a horse, one expert rates the current whip a 3.
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