Turf Club have made mess of Davy Russell saga

It defied logic and, to use a well-worn cliché, it simply sent out the wrong message, writes Pat Keane.

There’s North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the floods in Texas, and then you have the Davy Russell affair.

Last Saturday at Killarney a referrals committee of the Turf Club allowed Russell to get off with a caution, in other words scot-free, after he had been charged with punching the mare, Kings Dolly, at Tramore eight days earlier.