Leger stewards got it right

No sooner had the Leger at Doncaster on Saturday finished than a pal of mine rang to ask what I thought would happen at the subsequent stewards’ inquiry.

I replied that in my opinion the winner, Simple Verse, would be thrown out for certain in any other jurisdiction except Britain.

I wrote here some weeks ago that to lose a race in Britain, at an in inquiry, you nearly had to kill someone.