Talking point: should winners who break the whip rules keep the race?

Charlie Fellowes called for use of the whip above the permitted level to result in disqualification in a guest column in Tuesday's Racing Post. Two writers put the case for and against.

The argument against

The world – and society, in general – is changing. Mere utterance of the word ‘whip’ produces an instinctively negative reaction from most of the younger generation.

I am a realist, and unfortunately it is inevitable that at some stage in the next five years the whip will be consigned to the history books.