Withhold prize-money if whip rules are breached
We’ve had another chapter in the debate surrounding penalties for misuse of the whip.
As a recent guest columnist in the Racing Post (July 9), trainer Charlie Fellowes said that his first Royal Ascot winner Thanks Be should have been disqualified because of jockey Hayley Turner’s misuse of the whip, for which she received a £1,600 fine and nine-day ban.
Fellow trainers Sir Mark Prescott and Donald McCain joined the call for horses to be disqualified when the whip is used above the permitted level. The tenet of their argument is that if you break the rules, you forfeit the race.
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