FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN-A-ROW THE REFEREE BECOMES A PLAYER IN THE GAME
By Graham Potter | Monday, January 23, 2012
For the second successive week the referee became a player in the game at the main Saturday race meeting in Queensland. Last week the stewards were tested by a high profile protest at the Gold Coast. This week it was a case where weight loss was not a good thing!
The concerned look on Chief Steward Wade Birch’s face when he realized that apprentice Patrick Keane’s return weight after his ‘winning’ ride aboard Gold Rating was hopelessly under the accepted allowance was the first indication of the fact that a serious issue was unfolding.
It was an anxious walk for Keane as he accompanied Birch to be weighed a second time on a different scale and that anxiousness soon turned to dismay as the reading remained the same.
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It should have been a satisfying win for apprentice Patrick Keane on Gold Rating. The duo came out on top in a protracted battle with Chis Munce and Mr Light Bue which lasted the whole length of the home straight
Photo: Ross Stevenson
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... but a visit to the scale soon brought problems. Keane had weighed in light.
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