Mount Ferns found to be ‘lame on three legs’ day after finishing sixth in controversial race
Eric McNamara has said he felt “singled out” for the large penalties imposed under non-trier rules about his runner Mount Ferns at Clonmel earlier this month, all of which have been lifted by an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board appeals panel.
McNamara snr described the penalties as outrageous and insisted the horse was trying its best. Conor McNamara said Mount Ferns started to hang badly down the hill to the straight and that he couldn’t ride the horse out to the line.
“Plus, the fact how we showed them videos of his last four or five runs where his tendency to hang has been getting worse and worse and it came to a peak when the horse was hanging so badly he was ‘wrong.’ Conor couldn’t actually ride the horse up the straight. That was it. “We had a very fair hearing. They listened to all the evidence and came up with the right result. We didn’t have solicitors or barristers. We defended the case ourselves, myself and my two sons, and we spoke honestly and truthfully and they came up with the right result,” he said.
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