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.
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JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
