The Philippine Racing Fee (Philracom) is trying into doable infractions dedicated within the forty ninth Presidential Gold Cup final Sunday, and the governing physique may find yourself altering the order of end of the nation’s richest race ever.
The inquiry comes on the heels of protests filed by racehorse proprietor Sandy Javier and Tremendous Swerte rider JB Guce in opposition to winner Sky Shot and matched entry Boss Emong and their respective jockeys for foul driving. If the protest is upheld, it may change the results of the P10-million, 2,000-meter race at Metro Manila Turk Membership in Malvar, Batangas.
Javier, in a letter to Philracom chair Reli de Leon, claimed that Sky Shot and Boss Emong, who ran as coupled entries, “connived and intentionally impeded the operating” of his horse Tremendous Swerte, who completed a preventing third behind Sky Shot beneath Jonathan Hernandez and hard-finishing lengthy shot Nuclear Bomb.
De Leon, in the meantime, informed the Inquirer over the telephone on Tuesday afternoon that he has already assembled his board to look into the matter and stated that the physique can have no qualms altering the results of the race if the protest has advantage.
“We are literally reviewing the race and we hope to provide you with a call quickly,” stated De Leon, additionally a former racehorse proprietor.
This marks the primary time in trendy historical past that such a protest has been filed in such an enormous race, which provided P6 million to the successful connection.
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