Don't rinse your mouth out with beer - at least not next to the barrier stalls just before a race and where you can be spotted and dobbed-in by the Official Starter! Danny Nikolic has learned this valuable lesson. It cost him $200. That's the fine Racing Victoria stewards imposed on him for the beer-swill at a recent Ballarat meeting. They reckon it was misconduct. Nikko pleaded not guilty, to no avail. The fine, by the way, is just short of the level where an appeal can be lodged. Nice one. Que
Don't rinse your mouth out with beer - at least not next to the barrier stalls just before a race and where you can be spotted and dobbed-in by the Official Starter! Danny Nikolic has learned this valuable lesson. It cost him $200. That's the fine Racing Victoria stewards imposed on him for the beer-swill at a recent Ballarat meeting. They reckon it was misconduct. Nikko pleaded not guilty, to no avail. The fine, by the way, is just short of the level where an appeal can be lodged. Nice one. Question arising, of course, is this: If he'd swallowed the beer and not spat it out would it still have been misconduct? Or grave misconduct? Another question: Why was there no water available for the jockeys?