Trainer Denis Hogan left furious after failing to be awarded Down Royal race in stewards’ room following interference from winner
Consistently giving transgressors benefit of the doubt in interference cases is insufficient deterrent
The latter’s jockey Aidan Kelly reported that, after the last flight, Tell Us This came across to him throughout the run in and that he shouted numerous times to the winner’s rider, Conor Stone-Walsh. The latter said his mount was very green and that he thought he was clear to go to the rail. Five days earlier at Punchestown, another winner got the benefit of the doubt in the stewards’ room. Familiar Dreams hit the front in a valuable Mares bumper under jockey Aine O’Connor but then hung alarmingly left across the straight carrying the chasing Mozzies Sister with her.
In neither case could anyone claim to be shocked. In what’s always a subjective exercise by stewards’ panels, the default setting in almost any marginal scenario is towards giving the benefit of the doubt to the transgressor. Sanctuary is sought in letting the supposed best horse win.
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