New non runner rules

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The BHA must have taken advice from Betfair on how to write and enforce rules...

Jeff
Innertube wrote:Impossible to work out what the rules really are imho.
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New wording of Rule (H)6 from 1 May 2024

6. In a Race started from starting stalls, the Stewards may declare a horse a non-runner where:

6.1 A horse is denied a fair start, and its chances are materially affected, including but not limited to where:

6.1.1 a horse is prevented from starting on equal terms due to a faulty action of the starting stalls; or

6.1.2 that horse is riderless at the ‘Off’.

6.2 a horse has gained an unfair advantage at the start of the rac


Current wording of Rule (H)6

6. In a Race started from starting stalls, the Stewards may declare a horse a non-runner where:

6.1 that horse has been prevented from starting due to a faulty action of the starting stalls; or

6.2 that horse is riderless at the ‘Off’.
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