That feels better...Michael Rodd is now free to ride Rockpecker in Sunday's Canberra Cup and also to ride in an international jockeys' invitational race series in Mauritius the following weekend. Reason? The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board yesterday overturned a 24-meeting suspension he copped at Seymour last Wednesday.The screaming continues...Victorian owners chairman Andrew Lafontaine yesterday declared that product fee information supplied by Racing Victoria chief executive Rob Hines o

That feels better...Michael Rodd is now free to ride Rockpecker in Sunday's Canberra Cup and also to ride in an international jockeys' invitational race series in Mauritius the following weekend. Reason? The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board yesterday overturned a 24-meeting suspension he copped at Seymour last Wednesday.

The screaming continues...Victorian owners chairman Andrew Lafontaine yesterday declared that product fee information supplied by Racing Victoria chief executive Rob Hines on corporate bookmakers was ''inadequate and selective''.

Justification time...AJC honcho Darren Pearce has been at pains to explain why a Grp 1 meeting at Randwick was dumped in favor of a concert. He says - wait for it - the decision was a financial one. He says: 'Traditional revenue streams remain stressed, and we determined that we wouldn't be able to get prizemoney up to the competitive national levels without the contribution we get from this music event [Future Music Festival] - and by hosting this event and transferring the Guineas meeting to Warwick Farm, it is the lesser of two evils...It should also be noted that the race dates of these feature races are not able to be moved under the current 'fixed date' schedule for the Autumn Carnival.' But what would have happened if there'd been no concert? And what about all that treasure chest of money Racing NSDW claims to have from those nasty corporate bookies?

Randwick trainer Pat Webster has his views on the matter. He says: 'What next, on Epsom or Doncaster day they get the chance to run a Wiggles concert, so they will move those as well? I don't think so. They have cheapened a Group 1 by doing this.'