Off to Ascot...and the saddle slips

The Dog was racing as well as ever over the shorter distances, so we lined him up for a city run over 1400m. We opted for a claimer to get weight relief and improve our chances. All our plans came unstuck when the saddle of Jessica Valas slipped at the 1000m mark. This was not a happy day. Traveling down all that way for such a silly mis-hap had Clive without words. A little digging around we found out that there were quite a number of apprentices sporting new fly weight saddles with elastic webbing. They had been banned unofficially. Our hard-earned hit the dirt with not even a story to tell.