Retired jockey Allan Robinson will speak to Racing NSW stewards about his involvement in one of Australian racing’s biggest feuds.
Robinson has been revealed as the ‘ex-jockey’ who told John Singleton the owner’s champion racemare More Joyous couldn’t win the All Aged Stakes at Randwick.
In reports on Wednesday, Robinson claimed bookmaker, Tom Waterhouse, had told a friend of his that the prolific Group One winner was “off” in a race subsequently won by glamour colt All Too Hard.
Singleton’s More Joyous ran one of the worst races of her career, beating one horse home in the weight-for-age feature.
The defeat sparked a row between Singleton and his long-time trainer Gai Waterhouse, with stewards opening – and then adjourning – an inquiry after the race.
Robinson, who retired from riding after a 2010 race fall, said he had known Singleton since he was an apprentice and he still spoke to him on a regular basis.
He claimed it was not Johns who had told him about More Joyous’ condition.
