Clodagh
Well-Known Member
Excellent article by Charlie Brooks here.
Charlie Brooks believes it depends on how you read the extract:
He says the key words are ‘At the end…..’
Because neither jockeys used their sticks at the end of the battle.
Frankie Dettori used his stick once before the end and James Doyle
sparingly too….. but not at the end…..
*At the end* of that gruelling battle, Frankie Dettori needed to extract
every ounce of effort from the great mare Enable to see off the valiant
Crystal Ocean. And yet neither Frankie Dettori nor James Doyle resorted to
whipping their horses with their sticks behind the saddle.
This has to be the most unconvincing argument ever!- when is the end exactly thenliterally they didn't use the stick as they crossed the line!?