Welcome to the first ever Mid Week Chit Chat. Every week we will run you through the top stories of the week.
Jockey Brent Evans returns a horse to scale at Geelong. He will spend the next two months on the sidelines after testing positive to a banned substance. (Photo: Ryan Reynolds)
JOCKEYS made the news for all the wrong reasons this week with Brent Evans and WA jockey Duncan Miller facing the stewards.
Evans tested positive to a banned substance on September 21 with his hearing in front of the stewards heard on Tuesday.
The sample showed Evans had traces of the substance Ice in his urine.
Evans pleaded guilty and has been banned for two months. He will return to race on December 22.
Since the test Evans has provided a clean sample.
To view the full report head here: http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/stewards/stewardsInqu_4363.aspx
Clare Lindop will also miss rides on Derby and Melbourne Cup Day when she was suspended for careless riding.
The interference happened in race 7 on her mount Last Drop.
She will return Kyenton Cup day.
MEANWHILE, Miller will have to sit out the next twelve months after being found guilty of tampering with his new padded whip.
Miller was charged with improper practice, in that he carried and used the whip in races and trials, between August 1 2009 October 3 this year 2009. His whip had weighted objects in the padded section of the whip.
Miller is now considering his options and may appeal the ban.
More about his charge: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/racing/6231190/miller-at-crossroads-after-whip-charges/
TENSIONS may be high in the Rawiller household with Brad dumped off star horse Extra Zero in favour of his brother Nash.
David Hayes was unhappy with Brad’s ride on Extra Zero who failed to place in last week’s AAMI Vase.
Rawiller pushed Extra Zero to the front midway through last week’s race to challenge leader Carrara.
Both horses ran out of puff to be run down by backmarker Hanks trained by Peter Moody.
Extra Zero is set to race without Blinkers in an attempt to get the horse switched on.
THREE of the springs potential stars are also set to miss races with trainers changing plans ahead of Flemington’s four day carnival.
Hayes import Changingoftheguard is set to miss the Mackinnon Stakes after battling against time for the Melbourne Cup.
Instead Hayes will hold off for it to run in the Melbourne Cup.
The way the horse trains on Thursday will decide its spring carnival, with an impressive session set to confirm Hayes’ plan of sending the horse straight to the Melbourne Cup.
Cox Plate winner So You Think will have the weekend off with spring star Bart Cummings now targeting the horse for the Group 1 Emriates Stakes over 1600m.
The horse was originally set to run this Saturday in the Mackinnon Stakes over 2000m.
Speed Gifted also joins the casualty list with trainer Lee Freedman pulling the promising stayer out of the Melbourne Cup.
After a devastating win in the Metropolitan Handicap in Sydney on wet ground, Speed Gifted struggled to make the switch to the harder Melbourne surfaces.
After finishing well back in the Cox Plate, Freedman said his horse will now have a break before resuming in the Autumn.
The horse is reportedly very sore and suffering a hamstring injury.
JUST weeks after celebrating Caulfield Guineas, Leon Corstens and Starspangledbanner are embroiled in controversy.
Corstens will front a stewards' inquiry over a prohibited female hormone.
The sample contained Altrenogest, a reproductive hormone used to stop females coming into season.
Altrenogest is not a prohibited substance in female horses but is banned in males.
A date has not yet been set for the inquiry.
It is not the first time Corstens has had to face the stewards on the use of prohibited substances.
In 2005 the Corstens trained horse Oberste was found with TC02 in its blood.
To view that report head here: http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/stewards/stewardsInqu_572.aspx
ROUNDING out the news for the week is the windfall bookies are set to get from this year’s 4-day racing carnival at Flemington.
$1.67 billion is set to be splurged over the carnival, with $230 million set to be spent on the Melbourne Cup alone.
159 million bets are set to be wagered, with three quarters of that set to be done through the state based totes.
Saturday's Derby meeting, featuring nine races and five Group One events, is expected to edge out Cup Day for the biggest turnover.
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