I was told to come out of the stewards’ room – Samantha Fletcher
Following the controversial disqualification of her horse Tekapunt after passing the winning post in front in the second race on Monday, October 21, jockey Samantha Fletcher gave her version of what happened.
“Coming to the one furlong, the two horse [My Sunshine] braced down on me, I could not move, because if I moved, I would kill Raddesh Roman on the inside rails on
Salud.
“I don’t know if Roman would have fallen off, but something would have happened to him. So I stayed in my lane and didn’t move.
“Then I gradually passed back the two horse, won the race, and in a flash, I was disqualified.
“I then went into the stewards’ room to talk to the steward in the chair, and the response was, ‘Come out, come out, race already move!’
“I thought: What is that? That is very poor,” Fletcher said.