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Plum Pudding turns the tables
The Mercury
|August 25, 2025
OBJECTIONS will always be a contentious issue in horse racing. Some incidences are so clearcut that the stipendiary stewards have little choice but to press the button for the objection hooter to sound.
In other cases, objections from the affected parties require little more than a quick deliberation, over ruled and deposits forfeit.
Objection rules
Objection rules have changed many times over the years as the authorities try to pigeonhole offences but in a fluid situation in the heat of the moment, none can say who is right or wrong unless the infringement was blatantly obvious.
That brings us to the sixth race at Hollywoodbets Scottsville yesterday where winner Plum Pudding and runner-up Trois Trois Quatre came together around the 200m marker, the two having met at their previous outings with Trois Trois Quatre the winner but Plum Pudding now 1.5kg better off in the handicap.
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