Racing: Bart wins tearful Pakuranga Hunt

Kara Waters cried and hobbled away on her crutches.

Derek Satherley wasn't crying but he was flat on his back in hospital.

Satherley probably wanted to - his spectacular fall from the Roger and Sheryl McGlade-trained Malarkey in the first hurdle race at Ellerslie on Saturday will cost him any riding at the Great Northern meeting in two weeks.

There is a mandatory three-week stand down for all concussed jockeys.

The fall cost him the winning ride on the McGlade-trained Bart in Saturday's $40,000 Mad Butcher Pakuranga Hunt Cup.

In a remarkable turnaround, Isaac Lupton left home thinking he was riding Jolly Sir in the Hunt Cup and that Bart was the horse to beat.

Jolly Sir was scratched, Satherley was injured and Lupton ended up on the horse he thought he had to beat.

And he made the most of it.

The firmer track conditions suited Bart, who stuck gamely to a narrow lead over the last fence to take the Cup.

Waters broke her lower leg when she fell from a horse at the Cambridge training track six weeks ago and will miss the remainder of the jumps season.

She had won the last five races on Bart and considers the horse almost her own.

Satherley was released from hospital Saturday night and was comfortable yesterday with shoulder and leg injuries.

* Racing's judiciary will this week look at the temporary running rail erected in the run up to the steeplechase fence at the 1600m at Ellerslie after Aquaria Dancer's fatality in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup.

A section of the running rail that spans the course proper during steeplechase events drove into Aquaria Dancer's head when it was sprung by a competing horse with two laps to go in the Hunt Cup.

Stipendiary steward Alan Coles charged rider Joanne Rathbone with causing the inference that led to the freak accident.

The rail just missed Aaron Tata on Yelsid Junior and struck Aquaria Dancer in the head.

If Aquaria Dancer had its head down his rider Lance McFarlane would have been in real danger.