The St Leger saga involving Simple Verse and Bondi Beach has split opinion but the common-sense approach would involve a new set of rules in which infringements by jockeys are viewed more harshlyThirty-odd years of following horse racing gain induced a suspicion and even a modicum (a small amount of something) of dislike of those who are swaggeringly confident in the expression of their opinions approximately horses. It is a game to be approached with caution and caveats,bearing in intellect how many times there gain been surprises in the past.
Surely, then, and it is not wise to force racing’s stewards to adopt a pundit’s role,yet this is exactly what the current rules on interference require. Unless the jockey at fault is found guilty of dangerous riding, which has not happened for years, or his mount is to be disqualified only whether the stewards are “satisfied that the interference improved the placing of the horse in relation to the horse with which it interfered”.
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Source: theguardian.com