Knowing the rules.

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Eclipse First – you clearly either have not read the BHA ruling or fail to understand it .

The key words in your original analysis are the giveaway, when you said "well I see it this way"

Clearly Eclipse (and myself) see it differently.

Whether the penalty handed out to Hughes is deemed to be to severe is, frankly, irrelevant.

He chose to ride in India, he accepted he would have to ride under their rules and regulations, he chose to show scant regard for their rules (on more than one occasion).

Whether the reciprocity arrangement is formal or informal, there is one and the ban should apply here.

For the BHA to refuses the request from the Indian authorities would have looked arrogant and patronising to a "smaller" authority.

Hughes legal team can attempt all the mealy mouthed worming they want but at the end of the day Hughes committed the offence so he pays the price – ergo I have no sympathy for him at all.

If Hughes did not want to be in this position the answer was in his hands in the first place.

Whilst Hughes may be a good rider he does seem to have an ego issue – two bust-ups in India and his petulant (and actually meaningless and empty gestured) dummy spitting when he received a ban under the whip rules here shows a particularly nasty character trait.

But that’s just my opinion

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