Kilbeggan's treatment of staff was reprehensible - but, shamefully, no surprise

Eight years ago David Casey felt compelled to mobilise the rabble-rousing power of Twitter to flag Kilbeggan's excruciating decision to charge jockeys on duty at the track 10c per biscuit.

Judging by the picture he posted – in May 2014 – it looked awfully like a box of Jacob's USA biscuits had been left sitting in a cupboard since Christmas and someone decided to spill them on a plate and cash in. The biscuits were cheap and so was the stunt.

It illustrated an appalling lack of respect for jockeys at a venue that, having been the track at which Kieran Kelly suffered his fatal fall in 2003, should know better than to treat them with such contempt.