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I was the Port Lincoln Cup Calcutta last night smoozing with clients and as they are about to auction of horse #15 son of spartacus Hilton gets up from the crowd and disrupts the auction waving his hands and carrying on in front of 400 people saying it was scratched and trying to stop the auction.
I left after the auction and he was out the door dealing with the GM and security. I heard him yelling 'This is Corruption"..." I am 44 years old and I know corruption when I see it"

He had a fair point as the horse was officially scrathed and everone was aware of it. But to carry on like that pissed in front of all those people and the PLRC commitee was a disgrace.

very funny .....wish I had have gone now....

is it on youtube ?

Made Adelaide confidential today. Story pretty much verbatim of above post. Good to see the tiser repects Plaigerism laws.

The Caller on TAB Radio made a veiled reference to it yesterday I think too.

overloaded is either Tom Zed or they have copied it word for word from footysa AGAIN

One of our posters [no names but his old man is a prominent bookie], alerted Hilton to the situation and then in conlunction with others urged Hilton to say something

Surely the point HD was making that the horse was scr and they were about to auction it is the most important thing.
I thought usually with a calcutta that if your horse is scr you lose your money. Was this the case at Pt Lin or was there a refund if your horse was scratched?
what the club taking 10% out of whole price of horse and not 10% of the half which went to the calcutta pool. So people who won a horse in the raffle also lost 10% of the pool.

I heard he was ticking over which has gained more publicity than what he was alerting them too.

But what about the fact that HD spent the day at the venue and was on the hotels own table!!!!!
Meaning proberly a free tkt and free drinks. When does the responable serving of alcolhol come into play!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry bout the spelling.

HD knows how to find free grog and crayfish when he is in Port Lincoln, dont worry about that.

I Have spoken about this issue with people on both sides of the event.

The PLRC were of the understanding that the scratching was not official and couldnt contact the trainer to verify so they claim they had no choice but to auction the horse off on Wednesday night.

Hiltons case was that he advised them and everyone on course over the PA system that the TWO scratchings were official on Tuesday afternoon.

It looks as if the PLRC had plenty of time on late Tues and Wed to verify the scratching but didnt..... Hilton had a right to mention that it was scratched but after a few to many beverages he tried to stop the auction when that particular horse was being auctioned and make a reasonable scene (which the advertiser reported on). Contacts of mine at the event say he was loud and 3/4 pissed and telling everyone "this is corruption".

It's just another one of a long line of booze related embarrasments. The guys a disgrace!

Gee that seems a touch harsh koala

he doesn't need booze to embarrass or disgrace himself, who has seen him oncourse (not working) or in a tab, when he's had a bet the bloke is a moron of the highest order

alledgedly he has been banned from angle park and has been seen being told to leave the payneham tavern

Hey in his defence, i was there, and it was no where near as bad as the paper made it sound, infact i'l go on record to say the pt lincoln racing club and phil Mc Evoy were clearly in the wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the horse was scratched a good 12 hours before the calcutta, and hilton was only trying to do the right thing by the buying public!

I was there to Zahov, what did it matter to him if the horse was scratched? he should have just shut up and kept drinking his chardonay!!!! instead of getting up infront of everyone making a fool of himself.
You are making him sound like a good samaratin!! I much prefer the advertisers story

overloaded wrote:I was there to Zahov, what did it matter to him if the horse was scratched? he should have just shut up and kept drinking his chardonay!!!! instead of getting up infront of everyone making a fool of himself.
You are making him sound like a good samaratin!! I much prefer the advertisers story

do you know that if you buy a horse in a calcutta and it's scrctched you do your money cold? i hope you are the peanut or were with the ones that brought it!

the bloke was doing the right thing, who cares if he was drinking?

A couple of good points Zahov especially about "doing your money cold"
Ive never been a huge Hilton fan but basically he was trying to do the right thing wasnt he ???? OK the way he went about it might not have been spot on and fuelled by grog but cut him a bit of slack

that's right, you'd swear after reading this OVERLOADED has never been on the turps before,

well done hilty, for trying to help!

been on the turps plenty of times, just never got up infront of 400 people and tried to stop an event they were running ..Hollywood Hilton bignoting himself thats all it was

As if I would have bought it, I think the Fielders fellas bought it