Those stupid whip rules are bringing more bad headlines for racing...Now industrial action could loom because of the whopping $2000 fine smacked on Michael Rodd for using the whip too much to get Faint Perfume home in the Vinery at Rosehill. Jockeys are furious at the savaging they are copping from NSW stewards for 'whip offences' compared to their interstate colleagues. 'We are getting fined and suspended for trying to win,' says one leading jockey. The riders held a meeting in the jockeys' roo

Those stupid whip rules are bringing more bad headlines for racing...Now industrial action could loom because of the whopping $2000 fine smacked on Michael Rodd for using the whip too much to get Faint Perfume home in the Vinery at Rosehill. Jockeys are furious at the savaging they are copping from NSW stewards for 'whip offences' compared to their interstate colleagues. 'We are getting fined and suspended for trying to win,' says one leading jockey. The riders held a meeting in the jockeys' room to discuss the fine imposed on Rodd and jockeys' association spokesman Paul Innes says they were not impressed.