Whip rules

[Anonymous]

Spencer in the Oaks, Murtagh in the St James’ Palace…..

Why is it that a jockey can deliberately break the rules, thereby giving his horse an "advantage" and yet the result isn’t changed?

It’s simply idiotic. If horses were disqualified, whip rules (sorry, I mean guidelines) would be adhered to more stringently.

[Lingfield]

That is an old argument, well debated on here.

I see Murtagh was clobbered with 7 days worth of bans by the local stewards today, ruling him out of the Eclipse and Prix Jean Prat

[Goldikova]

Rules are simple, home jockeys get banned and foreign jockeys don’t. Pleae come back to Ascot we won’t ban you Mr Australian.

Reversing a decision would cause havoc with the punters. Not a route i’d like to see us go down.

Someone ought to tell the people who handed out the bans at Epsom that the course has a bloody slope.

[Tom]

The RSPCA claims to have a close relationship with the racing authorities and I often wonder why they don’t do more to get justice in situation like this?

[Goldikova]

Do whips hurt the horses ? they’re 1100 Ibs of muscle !!! are there any rules in place with regards tow hipe and 2 y/o ?

[yeats]

It would be plainly ludicrous to even discuss disqualification for a horse whose rider received a one day suspension for a very minor whip infringment. British racing would be a laughing stock.

[davidjohnson]

Spencer did not violate any whip rules in the Oaks.

[% MAN]

Spencer did not violate any whip rules in the Oaks.

Indeed – the inference being he was penalised for

not

using his whip to correct the horses drift to the right.

Damned if they use teh whip, damned if they don’t

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