Now hang on a minute, guys in the stipes room.
Matt Cameron has been exonerated from deliberately not allowing the favourite Mime to win Race 6 at Ellerslie on Saturday, but is still being charged under Rule 636 (1) b, which is failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures (to win).
Sorry, but that's way too subjective. Shouldn't that be covered under incompetent riding? And, wouldn't that be a strange one for last season's champion jockey.
As this writer's column in Monday's edition of the Herald pointed out, Mime was slow away and was then checked. She settled second last and Cameron angled out to come outside the field on the home bend, but there were too many horses and he would have had to go ridiculously wide. So he did the only sensible thing and came back inside and finished strongly along the rail into second place.
This is not a competition but this writer has been watching race replays for a living - at least five meetings a week, some races five and six times, for a long period. Probably 25,000 races a decade so let's say around 75,000 races - that's a lot.