Innocent until proven guilty? It would be nice if this actually meant anything these days. Just ask Mark Zahra. Named and instantly 'shamed' in the wild allegations being thrown around about race fixing in Victoria, hapless Mark finds himself a marked man. The big Darley mob were quick to tell him there won't be any rides for him until the allegations are sorted. Darley's worrying about its own image and not Mark Zahra's, obviously, and I suppose you can't blame a dollar-saturated crowd like tha
Innocent until proven guilty? It would be nice if this actually meant anything these days. Just ask Mark Zahra. Named and instantly 'shamed' in the wild allegations being thrown around about race fixing in Victoria, hapless Mark finds himself a marked man. The big Darley mob were quick to tell him there won't be any rides for him until the allegations are sorted. Darley's worrying about its own image and not Mark Zahra's, obviously, and I suppose you can't blame a dollar-saturated crowd like that one. But for Mark Zahra it must be another nail through his heart. How many other Darleys are going to banish him?
Racing's international recruiting officer Leigh Jordon says UK stayer Red Cadeaux, the horse just pipped by Dunaden in last year's Melbourne Cup, is ikely to target the Caulfield Cup on his way to a second Melbourne Cup tilt. Jordon says: 'There is no reason why Dunaden or Americain will not run in the Caulfield Cup, but I know that Red Cadeaux's trainer Ed Dunlop is seriously looking at the race for his horse...He could come out here much earlier than last year and run before the Melbourne Cup, and Ed is fully aware it's the richest 2400-metre handicap in the world and that he's got one of the best-performed horses over that trip.'