Sydney loves a circus. This one’s a doozy …
The Daily Telegraph even went so far as to map the stewards’ room (“a stenographer will be in the sixth seat on the left”). Yet for all the column inches devoted to Gai v Singo (starring Tom, Robbie, Joey, Eddie and Robbo), for whatever was and wasn’t said, for whatever instructions a trainer gave to a jockey, and said to her bookmaker husband and son, the facts remain the same.
As one gambling industry insider writes (reproduced in Crikey):
“Racing integrity issues aside, what Tom Waterhouse has done is far from responsible. It’s oversaturation and an unbearably pervasive brand of promotion.”
And as leading thoroughbred owner Peter Horwitz says in The Sydney Morning Herald (not online):
“Racing’s hierarchy will be hard pressed to ignore the elephant in the room. Although not directly on the short-term agenda, it has to be dealt with. The elephant in question is the marriage of a leading trainer and a leading bookmaker. To add fuel to the fire, their son is also a leading bookie.”
Plenty of elephants, in fact. None of which are being spoken about in the Racing NSW stewards’ inquiry today.
Send in the Clowns.
How could one tell?
If this enquiry results in less Tom Waterhouse on TV, then I’m all for it. I mean, if Tom really knows what punters want, then surely he would be living in poverty, wouldn’t he?
Ayjay
Chris Murphy was out of order in describing racing’s first lady as a “failed actress.” Witness her performance in the dock on Monday.
Jeez sick making isn’t it. No witness wants appear because the Waterhouse motto is Sue em! They are STFU litigants and you are spot on re performance in witness box Oscar material.!