Piere Strydom pack your bags

Titch wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Very unfair to Tellina Titch considering your past at handling that FARMER :whistle:

Care to elaborate??

ROBERT BLOOMBERG wrote: Hi Bob
In answering your question and to correct a few erroneous posts, I was contacted by Strydom and he has elected to utilise the services of Adv Manny Witz as he is a “family friend.”

The likelihood is that PS will be charged with Rule 62.2.3 which states that: “the rider of a horse shall ride his horse out to the end of a race.” The Guidelines usually followed for this contravention is 3:2:2:1 where your actions cost you 1st,2nd,3rd or 4th place. In other words, PS will probably get a 3 month suspension.

Then the mitigating factors in respect of sentence come into play i.e. the influence the commentator may have had on him, the fact that his view was blocked by 2 other horses on his inside so he never saw the winner, that this was a genuine error, his contriteness and acceptance of guilt and his impeccable record over many years particularly in terms of this Rule.

Precedents in previous matters are also of extreme importance, but on the flipside, you cannot equate dropping your hand a stride or two before the posts and doing so some 50m out and this was one of the worst I’ve seen in many years.

In my opinion taking all the factors into account, the likelihood is that he will get 6 weeks suspended and will therefore get a net suspension of 6 weeks. Having said that, I once acted for Marthinus Mienie who received the customary 3 month suspension and after 2 Appeals as the 1st led to an Inquiry de novo he ended up with a net R25k fine, but then he did have numerous mitigating factors in regard to his ride.

Titch wrote: How the commentator can be held accountable in ANY way is beyond me :S :S The fact that there has been such an uproar and that a 3 month suspension is being discussed as a possible punishment should surely show that everyone who watched the race was of the opinion that Striker should have won and had we been asked to predict the winner 50m from the line we all would have selected Dublin Rebel without exception...the fact that Nico called it as he (and everyone else) saw it is what one should expect from a race caller, so why , with the benefit of hindsight should he be blamed for something that was completely out of his hands...

Bob Brogan wrote: Comment from Rob was tongue in cheek imo ?

Titch wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Comment from Rob was tongue in cheek imo ?

Wasnt refering to Rob's comment H, there was a discussion on FB that claims NK was to blame which I could not for the life of me grasp...