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Sydney Morning Herald
04-07-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Rory Hutchings fit and focused on positives of ‘brain snap' ban
Jockey Rory Hutchings is keen to repay the faith of top trainer Chris Waller at Rosehill on Saturday after returning from a one-month suspension for improper conduct and trying to cheat the scales in what he described as a 'brain snap' moment. A three-time New Zealand champion apprentice, Hutchings had three rides for Waller without a win at his first meeting back, at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, and he has two – Barking Mad (race one) and Seafall (seven) – for him on Saturday. He also has the job on Elouyou for Victorian trainer Scott Cameron in the eighth. Hutchings was suspended for an incident on May 24 at Randwick when he attempted to weigh out pre-race for a ride on the Waller-trained Providence without his mandatory safety vest on. When caught by clerk of scales David Sylvester, Hutchings used the words, 'I'll look after you'. In the stewards inquiry, Hutchings pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to weigh out without the vest in an attempt to make the allotted weight, saying it was a 'brain snap'. He pleaded not guilty to an improper conduct charge in relation to his comments, saying how it was interpreted was not what he intended, but stewards found him guilty. Hutchings, 30, told stewards he struggled with his weight after being flooded in at his home in the lead-up. He was also under financial pressure after a three-month lay-off with a broken collarbone from a fall in New Zealand. Preparing for Saturday's chances, he said he regretted trying to come back too early. 'I live on the Central Coast and it was when we had all that rain, and there was only one road in and out, so we were in there for a couple of days,' said Hutchings, who has been based in Australia for 10 years. 'I might have come back a little bit soon, and I was trying to ride a little bit lighter at the same time, but the suspension I got, to take some positives out of it, I rode work every single day, got fit and got the weight down, and I rode my minimum, 56 [kilograms], first ride back on Wednesday.
The Age
04-07-2025
- Sport
- The Age
Rory Hutchings fit and focused on positives of ‘brain snap' ban
Jockey Rory Hutchings is keen to repay the faith of top trainer Chris Waller at Rosehill on Saturday after returning from a one-month suspension for improper conduct and trying to cheat the scales in what he described as a 'brain snap' moment. A three-time New Zealand champion apprentice, Hutchings had three rides for Waller without a win at his first meeting back, at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, and he has two – Barking Mad (race one) and Seafall (seven) – for him on Saturday. He also has the job on Elouyou for Victorian trainer Scott Cameron in the eighth. Hutchings was suspended for an incident on May 24 at Randwick when he attempted to weigh out pre-race for a ride on the Waller-trained Providence without his mandatory safety vest on. When caught by clerk of scales David Sylvester, Hutchings used the words, 'I'll look after you'. In the stewards inquiry, Hutchings pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to weigh out without the vest in an attempt to make the allotted weight, saying it was a 'brain snap'. He pleaded not guilty to an improper conduct charge in relation to his comments, saying how it was interpreted was not what he intended, but stewards found him guilty. Hutchings, 30, told stewards he struggled with his weight after being flooded in at his home in the lead-up. He was also under financial pressure after a three-month lay-off with a broken collarbone from a fall in New Zealand. Preparing for Saturday's chances, he said he regretted trying to come back too early. 'I live on the Central Coast and it was when we had all that rain, and there was only one road in and out, so we were in there for a couple of days,' said Hutchings, who has been based in Australia for 10 years. 'I might have come back a little bit soon, and I was trying to ride a little bit lighter at the same time, but the suspension I got, to take some positives out of it, I rode work every single day, got fit and got the weight down, and I rode my minimum, 56 [kilograms], first ride back on Wednesday.
News.com.au
24-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
‘Brain snap' lands jockey Rory Hutchings in hot water with stewards
Jockey Rory Hutchings was suspended at Royal Randwick on Saturday after he was caught trying to weigh out without his riding vest before making an improper remark to a race day official. Hutchings, who only recently returned from injury, has battled his weight throughout his career and it again caused him problems prior to the Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation 2YO Handicap. Hutchings was booked to ride the Chris Waller -trained Providence before being stood down. The jockey attempted to weigh out without his riding vest which is a requirement under the Australian rules of racing. When questioned over his action by the Clerk Of Scales, Mr David Sylvester, Hutchings commented: 'I'll look after you'. A remorseful Hutchings told stewards his 'words came out all wrong' and he wasn't trying to influence Mr Sylvester to overlook his actions. 'That was not the meaning which I meant,' Hutchings told stewards. 'I said it obviously, but it was a quite stressful time, I was in a rush and my words came out completely wrong.' Chief steward Tom Moxon pressed Hutchings on his statement, asking the jockey 'would it be accepted that a reasonable person would take those words to mean you were trying to have the Clerk of Scales allow you to weigh out and turn a blind eye to the fact that you were attempting to weigh out without a vest in order to make the weight?'. 'I understand where you are coming from sir but all I can tell you is what I meant and where I was coming from,' Hutchings said. 'When I said that Mr Sylvester didn't react to the comment and had he done so I would have apologised and explained to him what I meant so I just ran in, got my vest and weighed out again. 'I understand how he's taken it. At the time, because I didn't mean it how I said it, I didn't realise how serious it was. 'I do again apologise because there was no intent or that meaning as such. 'It was a brain snap.' • Well-backed Spione gets the cash with a barnstorming win Stewards found Hutchings guilty of an 'improper action' and issued a four-week suspension while he was also suspended for three weeks for attempting to weigh out without his vest. The two suspensions were ruled to be served concurrently, meaning Hutchings will only be sidelined for four weeks from June 1 until June 29. Meanwhile, Chad Schofield will be free to ride in Queensland on Stradbroke Handicap Day after copping a seven-meeting careless riding suspension. The ban will sideline him after next Saturday, where he'll ride at Eagle Farm, before he returns on June 13, the day before Queensland's biggest race. Tom Moxon will soon take over at Racing NSW chief steward. — Racenet (@RacenetTweets) May 22, 2025 In other news out of the Randwick stewards' room, convicted rogue vaper Tom Sherry was issued with a warning after an official alleged to stewards' he was vaping in the jockeys room. Sherry denied that he'd been vaping but did concede he had a vape in his presence. Moxon, the newly appointed chief stipe, told Sherry: 'We'll be giving you and the jockeys' association a direction to convey to their members that a vape is not to be in a riders possession, similar to a mobile phone, while in the jockeys room. 'Vaping is prohibited in the jockeys' room and it will be an offence moving forward if one is found in your presence while you're in the room.'
