IT’S been an interesting week or so for racecourse officials in the UK, with a photo-finish result called incorrectly at Kempton, making it a staggering three times in this calendar year that this simple job has been fumbled, and we’ve also had a case of yet another non-trier punishment being reversed on appeal due to relevant evidence not being available on the day. I get an odd feeling that we’ve been here before....

It’s not a new phenomenon for the judge’s decision in a close finish at Kempton to be overturned, and there was controversy when Dave Smith called a dead-heat at the track in
June 2013 which was immediately
questioned by both pundits and punters.