The Australian Racing Board is at it again...Its new whip laws are not even in force and it's changing them...Now we're told that stewards will take a soft approach to penalties for breaches of the new whip rules following the issue of new guidelines by the ARB....An ARB meeting in Melbourne on Thursday resolved to discard plans to adopt a mandatory penalty template for breaches of the new whip rules and replace them with a more workable set of guidelines. The new guidelines still provide the po
The Australian Racing Board is at it again...Its new whip laws are not even in force and it's changing them...Now we're told that stewards will take a soft approach to penalties for breaches of the new whip rules following the issue of new guidelines by the ARB....An ARB meeting in Melbourne on Thursday resolved to discard plans to adopt a mandatory penalty template for breaches of the new whip rules and replace them with a more workable set of guidelines. The new guidelines still provide the potential to impose significant penalties in cases of extreme breaches but overall are much less severe than those originally mooted.
The siren call of Mauritius is luring Danny Brereton to the sun-drenched island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) east of Madagascar. DB will be the retained rider for the stable of trainer Ramatapee Gujadhur, one of the most successful in Mauritius. He joins fellow Aussies Shane Dye and Danny Nikolic.