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Original Post 2010-May-13, 09:32 AM

NSW Stewards Discover Foam Under Canterbury Scales
Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy has put "officials around NSW on heightened alert" after "pieces of foam padding were discovered plugged under the weighing machine at Canterbury Racecourse", reported The Sydney Morning Herald. Murrihy confirmed the "pieces of foam padding resembled that which jockeys regularly place under their saddles" & noted: "We searched all the jockeys' gear at Canterbury (on Tuesday) to see whether the jigsaw fitted the pieces. We came up blank there. There is a possibility it was used at the previous Canterbury meeting on May 5. It just shows these old tricks are still alive & well. I think everyone has a story of cheating on the scales. It is an on-going battle of wits between the wily jockey endeavouring to make the weight & keep the ride & the officials at the scales." (May 13)
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2010-May-13, 10:15 AM

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2010-May-13, 11:02 AM

If this was fair dinkum, wouldn't those jockey who where going to weigh in at their correct weigh in lite ?

Wouldn't many of the wieghts come back skewiffed ?

Fair dinkum, I think Ray Murrihy likes his name in the papers.
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2010-May-13, 11:06 AM

No Because the scales would be reading 56kg for example, when it is 57 or heavier,
point being they would of put the foam there early in the day before the 1st,
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2010-May-13, 11:12 AM

No Because the scales would be reading 56kg for example, when it is 57 or heavier,
point being they would of put the foam there early in the day before the 1st,


There must have been jockeys who's weights were skewiffed.
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2010-May-13, 11:19 AM

effectively, weights for the whole day, would have been raised 1kg, for everybody
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2010-May-13, 11:20 AM

The old scales, apparently, according to my old man, jockeys could rest their toe on the upright part of the scale to effectively change the weight reading.
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2010-May-13, 12:36 PM

If this was fair dinkum, wouldn't those jockey who where going to weigh in at their correct weigh in lite ?

Wouldn't many of the wieghts come back skewiffed ?

Fair dinkum, I think Ray Murrihy likes his name in the papers.

Have to agree here.
The scales a jockey weighs out on are not the same scales they weigh in on at Canterbury.
Jocks are sure to be weighing in light
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2010-May-13, 12:43 PM

Don't want to argue the point here DJH  (unlike me) wink

But surely it can't be good practice to weigh in and out on 2 different sets of scales, would be open to all sorts of indescrepencies, surely.

But back to Matts question, if they were using one set of scales, then nobody would know the difference nowink
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2010-May-13, 01:01 PM

Don't want to argue the point here DJH  (unlike me) wink

But surely it can't be good practice to weigh in and out on 2 different sets of scales, would be open to all sorts of indescrepencies, surely.

But back to Matts question, if they were using one set of scales, then nobody would know the difference nowink

Agreed Magic.
But if you think jockeys weigh in/out on the same scales around Aus you are mistaken.
As an example you may know, look at Doomben, do you think the jocks make the 100m dash out to the weigh in scales to weigh out each race?
I have never seen it.
EF likewise
Canterbury likewise
Many others the same
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2010-May-13, 02:23 PM

Surely jockeys have the use of some sort of scales in the rooms to figure out their weight before going out to be officially weighed.

Otherwise they'd all be jigging around with gear and weights etc at the official weighing and it would take forever.

If that's the case they'd all be noticing the difference wouldn't they?
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2010-May-13, 02:32 PM

Surely jockeys have the use of some sort of scales in the rooms to figure out their weight before going out to be officially weighed.

Otherwise they'd all be jigging around with gear and weights etc at the official weighing and it would take forever.

If that's the case they'd all be noticing the difference wouldn't they?

From my experience there is a set of scales near the jockeys room which they weigh out on in front of the clerk of scales.
Jockeys know pretty much what they and their gear weighs so it is a matter of possibly adding or subtracting a small peice of lead from the bag to weigh out correctly.
Weighing back in is done in front of the stewards and quite often on a different set of scales.
Mind you only the first 5 weigh in.
The 7th horse could have had an extra 20kg on its back for all anyone would know
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