Michelin in the same steeplechase.
The timing, just days after sweeping rule changes were introduced after the death of a single horse in the
Melbourne Cup,
Anthony Van Dyck, would appear to have been at the least awkward but the lack of reaction was telling on a number of fronts.
It suggested there is something out of sight, out of mind about the goings-on at
Warrnambool in May compared to
Flemington in early November.
Warrnambool is big, but tribal. Mainstream media obviously doesn’t hawk it for bad news like it used to, basically because the bad news stories are not as common as they were when constant fatalities almost had jumps racing banned.
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Friday 07 May 2021
His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland, today presented Australian Honours and Awards to the following Queenslanders:
MR GARRY WILLIAM LOCKHART
Group Bravery Citation
Mr Lockhart is recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for his actions during a prison riot at Long Bay Gaol in New South Wales.
On the evening of 23 October 1986, a prison riot broke out at the Metropolitan Remand Centre at Long Bay Gaol. Three prison officers were taken hostage by inmates armed with makeshift weapons and, despite attempts by the officers to negotiate with the prisoners, they were locked in a nearby cell. Seventy inmates then took control of a section of the Centre.
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DEATH AT THE BOOL DAYS AFTER CUP REVIEW
May 5, 2021 4:39 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Just days after
Anthony Van Dyck in last year’s
Melbourne Cup, a horse has perished at the
Warrnambool May carnival.
Fulmineus, an 11-year-old longshot, was euthanised after suffering serious injury in a fall in today’s 3450m steeplechase.
Two horses fell in the race but the other,
Ascot Red, was uninjured.
Fulmineus had returned from a 10-month injury lay-off in a flat race at Terang in March but hadn’t contested a steeplechase since running seventh in last year’s Grand Annual at Warrnambool.