17th December 2015, 02:44 PM
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I can understand if your horse is a chance or you need to get out of trouble, but of all these breaches in the rules, very few resulted in even placings.
If your horse is gone, it's gone.
This is where a great deal of damage is done to the horse, the horse doesn't have the capability of determining the cause of hurt in a race situation. It leads to bleeding, fractures, heart attacks, broken legs, muscle cartilage damage, shin splints and bowed tendons because the horse will over extend beyond it's limits.
This is why so many breakdowns occur and why many good horses lose all form.
If you've got a lap full of horse and don't think you'll make it to the line, then use the whip. If you're leading or chasing the leader and you think you have a chance use the whip. But belting the living daylights out of a no hoper (this race) does nobody any favours.
Trainers can say "you didn't use the whip enough", but that's just an excuse, I'm quite sure the trainer would rather have a sound horse to go on with, than a breakdown, vets, osteopaths, chiropractors etc etc.
Stewards aren't going to penalise a jockey when the horse is struggling for not using the whip.
Just my opinion.
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