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If you ve spotted something in the form guide to lead you into backing Norway at Caulfield on Saturday, then you ve seen something that his trainer, Peter Moody, has missed. Talking of non-winners, Tommy Raudonikis, who we sadly lost this week, was playing halfback for Newtown when this horse last won and I think that was in the 70s, Moody joked on his podcast,
Moody On The Mic.
To be fair to the horse, it wasn t the 1970s (obviously) but it was more than 18 months ago, in his most recent start in his native Ireland against just four other runners over 2400m, albeit in a Group 3 at Leopardstown.
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.
Industry condemns new Racing Australia rule regarding riding instructions
Industry pans new Racing Australia rule regarding riding instructions by Punters.com.au Damien Oliver talking with trainer Symon Wilde Image: Getty
An amendment to the Rules Of Racing which will prevent jockey agents and form analysts providing tactical instructions to jockeys has been met with widespread criticism.
In a release about the upcoming change, set to come into effect on May 1, Racing Australia said it was aware of the increasing prevalence of persons other than trainers and connections - such as riders agent and form analysts - providing tactical riding instructions to jockeys .
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Group 1 Australian Guineas day at Flemington produced more than one unexpected result and while on occasion it left punters scratching their heads, so too connections of beaten runners.
A $301 winner of the feature race meant there was plenty of fallout from the Guineas itself and the stewards were busy, suspending two leading jockeys for careless riding. Read all the information and fallout from a big news day.
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Jockey Brad Parnham: “It was a great run, the pace backed off and then they quickened at the 600m and when that happened he was left flat footed, but really built to the line. He wants more ground than 1400m so he was good.”
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