The disqualification of the favourite in the third race at Turffontein last Saturday raises an interesting point.
Read more here for the background to the reader’s letter
Stewart Ramsay writes in the Sporting Post Mailbag that if a horse is disqualified then it cannot win/or place.
If it cannot earn a finishing place in a race then surely it is a non runner.
Those that backed cannot win.
If they cannot win, then surely they can’t lose.
The tote rules state that if you back a horse for a place and it finishes in the first three you will be paid a dividend – those are the terms of agreement of the transaction.
If a horse is disqualified and its chances of honouring that agreement of returning you a dividend are removed — then surely the terms and condition under which you entered that agreement are null and void?
