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Link to Share Group 1 Australian Guineas day at Flemington produced more than one unexpected result and while on occasion it left punters scratching their heads, so too connections of beaten runners. A $301 winner of the feature race meant there was plenty of fallout from the Guineas itself and the stewards were busy, suspending two leading jockeys for careless riding. Read all the information and fallout from a big news day. PLATOON (3rd) Jockey Brad Parnham: “It was a great run, the pace backed off and then they quickened at the 600m and when that happened he was left flat footed, but re...

Julius, the runner-up in the Group 1 Railway at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day, deserves a special mention … not just because he gave his all and was brave in defeat, but because of the back story to his career that everybody thought was already well and truly over back in late 2018. In October 2018 Julius was officially retired after a scan showed him to have a hole in his near-fore tendon seemingly leaving trainer John Bell no option but to make that retirement call. Julius at that stage had won six of thirteen starts and been placed on the other seven occasions.

2:55PM29 December 2020 Two plus two generally equals four, but it doesn't seem to when you look at the history of jockey betting bans. SOMETHING DOESN’T ADD UP Ben Melham was disqualified for five months for betting offences and giving false evidence, Damien Oliver was outed for eight months for backing a rival horse while Adam Hyeronimus was thrown out for three years for betting offences and providing false evidence. His appeal will be handed down in the new year. I was only fair at mathematics but the numbers don’t seem to add up to me. I realise each case is different but it’s a cas...