Stewards!!!!

Will be fine.

betty swollox times for 1.01 backers certainly thumped him twice

No market?

Nothing to sea hear.

He,ll be fine alright,still cost OP the race as he was going to go apast him.

if that was a sht hd


they would never take a race off this jock at this meeting

1.01 result stands

clever Frankie

Betfair have settled it already.

If that was Fallon, not Frankie, I really think he would lose it.

Another ban coming but will keep the race

there is a market 1.02 to keep it

cost it the race .....clear cut

It's exactly the sort of situation where the rules are wrong. Dettori has blatantly not cared that he's causing interference and undoubtedly stopped the momentum of opinion poll. You could definitely argue that he cost opinion poll at least half a length. However, there is no chance of it being thrown out.

Knight Commander     21 Jun 12 15:54 
No market?

Knight Commander     21 Jun 12 15:56 
Betfair have settled it already

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NO they have NOT

SEPARATE MARKET for Stewards

Horse Racing > GB > Stewards Enquiry > 'Keep the race.

It's the 2nd that ought to get the benefit of any doubt in such circumstances. Not the jockey who has deliberately caused the interference.

Pretty certain would be reversed in US

Agree asparagus.

Opinion Pool looked for all the world he was going to continue his 'winning run'

Dettori knocked him straight out of his stride.

oh la la.....Liz translating tasty.

more chance of ryan moore winning

'after dinner speaker of the year' than any action there

^ and therefore, Opinion Poll LOST his momentum

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL quickest interviews for the stewards. Can't be arsed.

bottling stewards

sounds as if frankie got away with it as barzalona didn't question frankie

bloody hell stewards decided before I could type a short post

Frankie against a boy who can't speak English...haha

not a very spirited defense for opinion poll in the stewards room there was there?

barzalona 's job safe after that performance

Stewards was:

Frankie giving it 110 words per minute for quite a while v Gallic shrug

very true. feel sorry for o poll's backers that not given a chance there

very true. feel sorry for o poll's backers that not given a chance there

worst stewards ever

they really shouldn't show these things on tv, they give away what a stitch up they things are

Sonko spot on, old twits couldn't even be bothered to discuss it obviously. Terrible to put young Barzalona in that situation though.

Boys in blue kept it in-house.

Onlooker, yes that's the problem. How do you judge momentum. Until the bumps Opinion Poll looks the winner. It's possible and in fact maybe likely that Colour Vision picked up again and would have won but it's certainly far from certain. The rules encouraged dettori to bump the opponent. If there's any reasonable doubt the 2nd should get the race imo.

I thought that looked a bit unfair and the placings should have been reversed imo

Spot on Asparagus. That's exactly my stance.

I did not have any money on the race so not talking through my pocket, i WOULD BE GUTTED if i had backed the 2nd because Frankie stopped its momentum..It cost it the race

Barza backers never had a fookin chance in stewards - the toffs behind the desk looked totally disinterested in the translaters offerings.....

He has some neck.

Rishi completely stumping Frankie there. Huge facepalm moment.

If the 2nd wasn't god and had a jockey that wasn't employed by the 1st there was a small chance he would lose it but LF and Mo at Royal Ascot? I don't think it will be appealed somehow.

Barza backers never had a fookin chance in stewards - the toffs behind the desk looked totally disinterested in the translaters offerings.....


he didn't say anything though all the translator did was explain what frankie said

The question should be what % was Opinion Poll to win without the bump. It went 1.11 inrunning so that tells the story. I think without the bumps and hindsight 70% chance so he should of got the race.

did that translator have a gun in her pocket pointing at barcelona???

The real enquiry should be into why the favourite was cat altogether, imo.

Actual Stewards' was fairly pointless, imo. For all concerned, the result had to stand.
Pretty obvious, really. Rules may be rules, but they don't always apply at Royal Ascot.

My three bets in the race came 1st, 2nd, and nowhere (fav).

If the ground was quicker they wouldnt have seen which way Frankie went. CV is special stayer. Hates ground with ease in it, and done well to win.

Forget the parties involved - the winner should have been placed second. The head on shows bumping took place twice. The side view shows that Opinion Poll had just taken the lead when bumping took place. Are we now debating how many bumps equal a length? The decision was quite diabolical. I cannot help but compare it with Bizzy Izzit being disqualified at Sandown when it was hardly visible that any interference took place.
P.S. I had no bet in the race so do not speak out of my pocket.

GEOFFDECHEF - I did not have any money on the race so not talking through my pocket, i WOULD BE GUTTED if i had backed the 2nd because Frankie stopped its momentum..It cost it the race

I did back the Opinion Poll... YES I'm talking through my pocket, and YES i'm gutted..

That was a disgraceful decision.

ArmchairIdiot - If the ground was quicker they wouldnt have seen which way Frankie went. CV is special stayer. Hates ground with ease in it, and done well to win.

Some of us actually took into account the rain that had fallen and put money on the horse more suited to the conditions... funny that.

Done well to win? You mean Frankie did well to knock the wind out of the horse that should have won.

Stop your massive seethe, you upside down fcking head cripple. Ive said nothing out of turn. Now get over it.

Anyone would think that Horse Racing UK had a vested financial interest in the profitability of the bookmaking industry, and that disqualifying the winner would have meant that the bookmakers have to pay out twice, imo...

Oh shut up you toffie nose twit. I'm entitled to a massive dummy spit after that joke of a stewards decision.

Punters obvously run a long last in the list of priorities over there.

My fault actually believing your racing had any integrity.

not a chance in hell of that being thrown out

yeah, not a chance in hell in yor bizarro universe

Best horse won, end of, thats why Frankie chose it. Only "Special" people didn't follow the massive tip Frankie laid out for them.

Best horse won? How much you had to drink?

frankie fan boys living in the past

detori is a first class mug and lucky he got away with that and didnt cost the stable the race ,if it was the other way around detori would have bored into him and handed the race to the 3rd .

Laffin at the pocket talkers.

No wonder Frankie and Godolphin have never won (despite many attempts) a properly run race like the Melbourne Cup.

lost, get over it

Let them seethe some more XD

Lesson learnt... never bet on horse with second string jockey on it in Europe...

OK rant over... and it's time for bed anyway...

Good Night All...

Waiting for the results of the enquiry I was reminded of the controversial finish to the Rose Ravine/Crimson Embers Stayers Hurdle where both were owned by the same person. The placing weren't altered then as there was no objection.