• One For Rosie called wrong winner instead of Third Wind
• Different finish lines for hurdles and steeplechase races
Horse racing’s ability to shoot itself in the foot has been to the fore again, with the wrong result called after one of Saturday’s biggest betting races. One aggrieved bookmaker yelled: “You couldn’t run a piss-up in a brewery!” at officials as they scrambled to clarify what had gone wrong in the moments after the EBF Hurdle Final.
At the heart of the problem is Sandown’s longstanding arrangement of two different finishing lines for jump racing, one for the hurdles course and one for the steeplechase course, which approach the finish at different angles. That necessitates two winning posts on the far rail, the first of which is for steeplechases and the second for hurdle races.
Written by Chris Cook at Sandown
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/09/racing-shoots-itself-in-foot-again-after-wrong-result-farce-sandown under the title “Racing shoots itself in the foot again after wrong result farce at Sandown”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
