RACE DAY RUCKUS
CRIMINAL charges and a five-year ban from KwaZulu-Natal racecourses was the punishment meted out to the group of 28 protesters who allegedly caused the abandonment of racing at the Hollywoodbets Greyville racecourse last Saturday.
Gold Circle CEO Michel Nairac confirmed the group, including 10 horse owners, would also be sued for the losses they had since sustained.
The protest erupted when the favourite, Main Defender, in Race 6, the Independent on Saturday Drill Hall Stakes and the opening race of the Champions Season, was scratched minutes before the race after it had failed a mandatory pre-race blood test.
With a series of top-listed
