Ashburton TC – 26 December 2009 – Race 6
ID: JCA21777
Hearing Type (Code):
harness-racing
Meet Title:
Ashburton TC - 26 December 2009
Race Date:
2009/12/26
Race Number:
Race 6
Decision:
RACEDAY JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DECISION
--Information No: 14535
--Meeting: Ashburton Trotting Club Date: 26 December 2009
--Venue: Ashburton Raceway, Ashburton Race No: 6
--Rule(s): 869 (8) (b) Passing Lane, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations
--Judicial Committee:
--Chairman: R G McKenzie, Panel Member: K G Hales
--Plea: Admitted
--Appearing:
--Informant: N M Ydgren, Stipendiary Steward
--Defendant:
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DECISION AND REASONS:
Following the running of Race 3, Robbie’s Bar & Bistro Ashburton Cup, an information instigating a protest was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, by RAGLAN (A M Butt) , placed 2nd by the judge, against SECOND WIND (R T May), placed 1st by the judge, on the ground of interference “upon entering the home straight”.
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RACEDAY JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DECISION
--Information No: 14535
--Meeting: Ashburton Trotting Club Date: 26 December 2009
--Venue: Ashburton Raceway, Ashburton Race No: 6
--Rule(s): 869 (8) (b) Passing Lane, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations
--Judicial Committee:
--Chairman: R G McKenzie, Panel Member: K G Hales
--Plea: Admitted
--Appearing:
--Informant: N M Ydgren, Stipendiary Steward
--Defendant:
--
DECISION AND REASONS:
Following the running of Race 3, Robbie’s Bar & Bistro Ashburton Cup, an information instigating a protest was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, by RAGLAN (A M Butt) , placed 2nd by the judge, against SECOND WIND (R T May), placed 1st by the judge, on the ground of interference “upon entering the home straight”.
--Mr May was present at the hearing of the information as were the owner of SECOND WIND (G M Adlam) and the trainer (S J Adlam).
--Mr Ydgren alleged that, upon entering the final straight, Mr May was observed to move into the passing lane and RAGLAN’s run was dictated by SECOND WIND’s running line.
--Rule 869 provides as follows:
(8) The Judicial Committee may in addition to any other penalty which may be imposed pursuant to Rule 1003 thereof place any horse which:
(a) may have gained an advantage by any conduct or interference prohibited by any preceding provision of this Rule and/or
(b) may have interfered with, or whose horseman may have interfered with , the progress or chance of any other horse or horses-
immediately after any horse from which it may have gained an advantage or whose chances or progress may have been affected thereby.
The Passing Lanes, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations provide as follows:
4. In the last lap of any race the the leading horse on the running line shall, upon entering the home straight, maintain as straight a course as possible parallel to the running line and allow the trailing horses full access to the expanded inside lane.
Mrs K R Williams, Stipendiary Steward, showed head-on and side-on video replays of the final stages of the Race. She pointed out SECOND WIND in the lead with RAGLAN on its back. The former had its head out and was appearing to run out. Mr Butt was entitled to have full access to the passing lane. The question for the Committee, Mrs Williams said, was whether Mr Butt always had a “full and clear run”. At one point in the straight, Mr May appeared to run in briefly. At that stage, Mr Butt still had full access – there was still room inside SECOND WIND’s inside wheel. Mr Butt took hold with a view to possibly restraining and coming to the outside of and around SECOND WIND. He elected to go back down and continue on the inside running. Thereafter, RAGLAN was driven out to the line. The margin between 1st and 2nd at the finish was 0.6 or ¾ of a length.
--Mr Butt stated that his progress or chances had been interfered with. He said that there was room for him on entering the passing lane, he pulled the earplugs and the horse “surged”. The leader shifted down and closed the gap. He was unable to get up on the inside so he took hold and tried to get up on the outside. He lost momentum at that stage, just as SECOND WIND was moved back out. While Mr May had shifted in to the passing lane very briefly and come out "reasonably quickly", it was enough to halt his momentum, he said. Mr Butt admitted that, over the final stages, SECOND WIND was holding him but, if the interference had not occurred, he believed that he would have run the winner very close.
--Mr May used the video replays. He alleged that at the turn he had not let his horse go – it was “really bolting”, he stated. Upon entering the passing lane, he let it go. It did enter the passing lane but he alleged that RAGLAN was not making any progress. They had really “sprinted hard” upon entering the passing lane. Had Mr Butt remained where he was, he would not have received any interference, Mr May submitted. Mr May referred to the margin of ¾ length between the horses at the finish. He had Mr Butt off “pretty good” over the final stages and, over the last 50 metres, Mr Butt was not making any ground.
--Having watched carefully the video replays and listened to the evidence and submissions of the parties, the Committee found that turning into the home straight, SECOND WIND was leading on the marker line with RAGLAN on its back. The leader began to sprint hard. There was clear room for RAGLAN to enter the passing lane and Mr Butt did steer that horse down to take the passing lane. Shortly after that, SECOND WIND drifted down for a few strides into the passing lane and restrict, very briefly, RAGLAN’s access to it. It was at that point that Mr Butt, momentarily, took hold of RAGLAN and looked to angle to the outside of SECOND WIND. Mr May quickly pulled SECOND WIND out of the passing lane and, thereafter, there was, in the Committee’s view, a full and clear run for RAGLAN in the passing lane. When this run became available, Mr Butt turned RAGLAN back to the inside of SECOND WIND. Over the final stages of the Race, RAGLAN made little or no ground on SECOND WIND and, it appeared to the Committee, the latter went to the line strongly and was comfortably holding RAGLAN over the final stages.
--The Committee found that, while there was some interference to RAGLAN when SECOND WIND momentarily ducked into the passing lane, that interference was minor and that, while the progress of RAGLAN may have been slightly affected, the interference did not affect the chances of RAGLAN.
--The basic question for the Committee to decide was, but for the interference to RAGLAN (which we have said was minor), would RAGLAN have beaten SECOND WIND in the Race. The Committee was not satisfied that it would have. In arriving at this conclusion, the Committee had regard to the margin of ¾ length at the finish, Mr May’s evidence and the Committee’s own observations from the video replays that SECOND WIND was racing strongly at the finishing line and comfortably holding RAGLAN which, the Committee believed, had every opportunity to pass SECOND WIND but which was not making any ground on SECOND WIND over the final stages.
--Accordingly, the protest was dismissed and the judge’s placings for the Race stand.
--R G McKenzie K G Hales
CHAIR Committee Member
14535
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Decision:
RACEDAY JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DECISION
--Information No: 14535
--Meeting: Ashburton Trotting Club Date: 26 December 2009
--Venue: Ashburton Raceway, Ashburton Race No: 6
--Rule(s): 869 (8) (b) Passing Lane, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations
--Judicial Committee:
--Chairman: R G McKenzie, Panel Member: K G Hales
--Plea: Admitted
--Appearing:
--Informant: N M Ydgren, Stipendiary Steward
--Defendant:
--
DECISION AND REASONS:
Following the running of Race 3, Robbie’s Bar & Bistro Ashburton Cup, an information instigating a protest was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, by RAGLAN (A M Butt) , placed 2nd by the judge, against SECOND WIND (R T May), placed 1st by the judge, on the ground of interference “upon entering the home straight”.
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RACEDAY JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DECISION
--Information No: 14535
--Meeting: Ashburton Trotting Club Date: 26 December 2009
--Venue: Ashburton Raceway, Ashburton Race No: 6
--Rule(s): 869 (8) (b) Passing Lane, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations
--Judicial Committee:
--Chairman: R G McKenzie, Panel Member: K G Hales
--Plea: Admitted
--Appearing:
--Informant: N M Ydgren, Stipendiary Steward
--Defendant:
--
DECISION AND REASONS:
Following the running of Race 3, Robbie’s Bar & Bistro Ashburton Cup, an information instigating a protest was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr N M Ydgren, by RAGLAN (A M Butt) , placed 2nd by the judge, against SECOND WIND (R T May), placed 1st by the judge, on the ground of interference “upon entering the home straight”.
--Mr May was present at the hearing of the information as were the owner of SECOND WIND (G M Adlam) and the trainer (S J Adlam).
--Mr Ydgren alleged that, upon entering the final straight, Mr May was observed to move into the passing lane and RAGLAN’s run was dictated by SECOND WIND’s running line.
--Rule 869 provides as follows:
(8) The Judicial Committee may in addition to any other penalty which may be imposed pursuant to Rule 1003 thereof place any horse which:
(a) may have gained an advantage by any conduct or interference prohibited by any preceding provision of this Rule and/or
(b) may have interfered with, or whose horseman may have interfered with , the progress or chance of any other horse or horses-
immediately after any horse from which it may have gained an advantage or whose chances or progress may have been affected thereby.
The Passing Lanes, False Rails and Home Straight Regulations provide as follows:
4. In the last lap of any race the the leading horse on the running line shall, upon entering the home straight, maintain as straight a course as possible parallel to the running line and allow the trailing horses full access to the expanded inside lane.
Mrs K R Williams, Stipendiary Steward, showed head-on and side-on video replays of the final stages of the Race. She pointed out SECOND WIND in the lead with RAGLAN on its back. The former had its head out and was appearing to run out. Mr Butt was entitled to have full access to the passing lane. The question for the Committee, Mrs Williams said, was whether Mr Butt always had a “full and clear run”. At one point in the straight, Mr May appeared to run in briefly. At that stage, Mr Butt still had full access – there was still room inside SECOND WIND’s inside wheel. Mr Butt took hold with a view to possibly restraining and coming to the outside of and around SECOND WIND. He elected to go back down and continue on the inside running. Thereafter, RAGLAN was driven out to the line. The margin between 1st and 2nd at the finish was 0.6 or ¾ of a length.
--Mr Butt stated that his progress or chances had been interfered with. He said that there was room for him on entering the passing lane, he pulled the earplugs and the horse “surged”. The leader shifted down and closed the gap. He was unable to get up on the inside so he took hold and tried to get up on the outside. He lost momentum at that stage, just as SECOND WIND was moved back out. While Mr May had shifted in to the passing lane very briefly and come out "reasonably quickly", it was enough to halt his momentum, he said. Mr Butt admitted that, over the final stages, SECOND WIND was holding him but, if the interference had not occurred, he believed that he would have run the winner very close.
--Mr May used the video replays. He alleged that at the turn he had not let his horse go – it was “really bolting”, he stated. Upon entering the passing lane, he let it go. It did enter the passing lane but he alleged that RAGLAN was not making any progress. They had really “sprinted hard” upon entering the passing lane. Had Mr Butt remained where he was, he would not have received any interference, Mr May submitted. Mr May referred to the margin of ¾ length between the horses at the finish. He had Mr Butt off “pretty good” over the final stages and, over the last 50 metres, Mr Butt was not making any ground.
--Having watched carefully the video replays and listened to the evidence and submissions of the parties, the Committee found that turning into the home straight, SECOND WIND was leading on the marker line with RAGLAN on its back. The leader began to sprint hard. There was clear room for RAGLAN to enter the passing lane and Mr Butt did steer that horse down to take the passing lane. Shortly after that, SECOND WIND drifted down for a few strides into the passing lane and restrict, very briefly, RAGLAN’s access to it. It was at that point that Mr Butt, momentarily, took hold of RAGLAN and looked to angle to the outside of SECOND WIND. Mr May quickly pulled SECOND WIND out of the passing lane and, thereafter, there was, in the Committee’s view, a full and clear run for RAGLAN in the passing lane. When this run became available, Mr Butt turned RAGLAN back to the inside of SECOND WIND. Over the final stages of the Race, RAGLAN made little or no ground on SECOND WIND and, it appeared to the Committee, the latter went to the line strongly and was comfortably holding RAGLAN over the final stages.
--The Committee found that, while there was some interference to RAGLAN when SECOND WIND momentarily ducked into the passing lane, that interference was minor and that, while the progress of RAGLAN may have been slightly affected, the interference did not affect the chances of RAGLAN.
--The basic question for the Committee to decide was, but for the interference to RAGLAN (which we have said was minor), would RAGLAN have beaten SECOND WIND in the Race. The Committee was not satisfied that it would have. In arriving at this conclusion, the Committee had regard to the margin of ¾ length at the finish, Mr May’s evidence and the Committee’s own observations from the video replays that SECOND WIND was racing strongly at the finishing line and comfortably holding RAGLAN which, the Committee believed, had every opportunity to pass SECOND WIND but which was not making any ground on SECOND WIND over the final stages.
--Accordingly, the protest was dismissed and the judge’s placings for the Race stand.
--R G McKenzie K G Hales
CHAIR Committee Member
14535
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