Similar comments from the Chief steward in Hong Kong, saying this is the incident to spark change and bring USA up to speed with the rest of the world.
In particular relevance to what I said above: “In ‘Category One’, if it can be clearly demonstrated that the horse interfered with would have beaten [the other one] home, punters can accept they should not have won the race under those circumstances. They can’t accept losing their money for interference sustained to a horse that finished 17th.”
https://www.scmp.com/sport/racing/ar...ange-kim-kelly