BUILDERS EXPRESS (MR 80) HANDICAP

PIONEER SPIRIT was slow into stride. BARACAH, INNATE QUALITY and SAVETHELASTDANCE lost 1 length. PIONEER SPIRIT was selected for the taking of specimens for analysis. MAMBO MASTER was pulling hard in the early stages, difficult to restrain and raced wide into the straight. Jockey Veale reported that SAVETHELASTDANCE took no interest in running. INNATE QUALITY hung out and shifted out away from the crop at approximately the 200 metre mark, carrying and making contact with NIGHT LOCK. This in turn resulted in JET AVENGER, BARACAH and SEEKING THE DREAM being carried outwards and NIGHT LOCK becoming cramped for galloping room. An Objection was lodged by a Stipendiary Steward on behalf of the fourth placed horse, NIGHT LOCK, against the third placed horse, INNATE QUALITY, on the grounds of interference in the latter stages. The Objection Board, after considering the evidence, were of the opinion that but for the interference NIGHT LOCK would have beaten INNATE QUALITY and therefore upheld the Objection and amended the result. Apprentice Ngcobo signed an Admission of Guilt and was suspended for a period of ten days for a contravention of in that, as the rider of INNATE QUALITY, he failed to ensure that he did not cause interference to horses on his outside at approximately the 200 metre mark. INNATE QUALITY raced without his tongue tied down. Vet: MAMBO MASTER and SAVETHELASTDANCE - nothing obvious detected.