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The turf

Why do race-goers have to subsidise the post-sport entertainment?

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

Before this year’s Shergar Cup meeting all I had seen of Australian flat jockey Mark Zahra was a memorably painful picture of him at Flemington racecourse on Melbourne Cup day some years ago, his red and white colours almost obliterated beneath the half-tonne bulk of War Story, an accident in which he could well have suffered far worse injuries than the broken leg and wrist he sustained.

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