Well done to jockey MJ Byleveld for apologising on Tellytrack for the few moments of madness that saw him responding rather irresponsibly to information badgering by enthusiastic punters in the Vodacom Durban July build-up week.
We have had sight of the exchanges and do not wish to comment on the specifics.
We all live under our own relative stress and the problem is that Twittering is a relatively new public medium where celebrities, sports personalities and Joe Public can mingle on a basis never previously experienced. This gives rise to unchartered liberty taking and natural frustration on both sides.
We have all said things we have regretted, and while jockeys and trainers need to accept that the R2 punter finances their lifestyles, it takes a man to say sorry.
The Enchanting Currency Of Fate
27th September 2024
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
