Turf Club already under pressure to backtrack on revised Rule 212

We will all be focussed on Aidan O’Brien’s appeal this week, writes Pat Keane.

Listen, anyone who thought the stewards were going to restrict their new powers to only going after “lads’’ of the minor variety had their answer at Dundalk last night week.

It is generally believed, rightly or wrongly, that there has always been one rule for the rich and another for the rest, in this country, when it came to stewarding.