The National Horseracing Authority will await the findings of a TAB investigation before commenting further on the circumstances leading to an incorrect result being posted.
TAB announced on Friday that an incorrect result was ‘inadvertently posted’ for Race 7 at Durbanville on Wednesday 28 September.
The release states that ‘initially the judge posted the provisional result as 14-2-13-1, which was amended five minutes later to read 14-2-13-7.
This result was still provisional, but after the All Clear was posted by the stipendiary stewards, it became the official result and TAB declared official dividends and paid out accordingly.
Later after discussions between Tellytrack and TAB staff and Durbanville Racecourse it became clear that No 1, not No 7, had run fourth. The official result was then corrected to read 14-2-13-1.
NHA Racing Control Executive Arnold Hyde confirmed to the Sporting Post over this weekend that he had been provided with a report on this incident from the NHA staff that officiated at Durbanville on the day in question.
“I await the findings of Phumelela TAB’s investigation, before I will be in a position to comment,” he said in response to a request for clarity as to who had erred and who ‘amended the result five minutes later’. This was not clear from the TAB press release.
