Turf Club may probe valets’ payment dispute

RACING at Kilbeggan last Saturday night came close to being cancelled when the jockeys’ valets said they would not work unless they were given a special payment of €130, which they got from the racecourses for working Saturday evenings last year.

Kilbeggan refused to pay, however, and the situation was only resolved when one of the course’s sponsors came up with the money.

There was a new twist to the debacle last evening when Turf Club Chief Executive, Denis Egan, revealed that the Turf Club had received a complaint from the Association of Irish Racecourses regarding the valets behaviour at Kilbeggan.