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SOLUTIONS BEING SOUGHT FOR SPLIT SCREEN STALEMATE
April 20, 2021 8:06 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Negotiations are underway to fix a split screen stalemate that has angered the
Melbourne Racing Club, which has had two major races in three weeks fill half the screen on
Sky 1.
MRC chief executive Josh Blanksby has written to
TAB/Sky to seek an explanation for multiple incidents where races conducted by his club – including the
Easter Cup and
Caulfield – were run on split screens as fields milled around behind the barriers for
country NSW races.
Racing Victoria has entered the discussion and will work with SKY/TAB to find better ways to showcase Victorian meetings while maintaining contractual obligations to NSW country meetings to maximise their wagering opportunities.
To paraphrase a successful senior jockey – good riders don’t need instructions and bad ones don’t follow them .
I note this in the wake of another messaging own goal coming from Racing Australia in a seemingly bizarrely timed Good Friday eve statement announcing an amendment to the Rules of Racing in relation to riding instructions.
This is the one that cemented jockeys only receive riding instructions from a trainer or owner of the horse they are riding.
Again in seeking – in RA’s own words – they didn’t want jockeys to be confused by receiving “conflicting riding instructions”.
Where did this come from? Where were the serious concerns raised, discussed, tabled and wrapped into this change? Which were later written away as merely formalising a “chain of command”, if you can get your head around that.
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REPOSITIONED ALL STAR WOULD TURBO-BOOST FLAGGING OZ CUP, BROWELL
March 15, 2021 2:13 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Michael Browell’s fantasy for the future is a reshuffled summer/autumn carnival in
Melbourne, with the
Moonee Valley.
As much as the Valley chief was as blown away as everyone else by the intimate drama of Saturday’s epic
All-Star, where
Hugh Bowman and
Damien Oliver waged a war of wits as their mounts slogged it out through the Valley mud, Browell realises it’s “$1.04” that Racing Victoria would continue to rotate the race through the three city tracks.
Browell did suggest the two other city clubs might not be desperate to cling to the
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