An Australian horse racing coach bought wasted and pulled down a compliance officer’s pants and underwear in entrance of a crowd on the Kangaroo Island racetrack, The Sydney Morning Herald studies.
Racehorse coach Todd Balfour, above, claimed he couldn’t keep in mind knocking down a Racing SA official’s pants as a result of he had consumed a big quantity of alcohol. (Picture: Racing.com)
Sadly for coach Todd Balfour, regulator Racing South Australia, which employed the official, didn’t see the humorous aspect.
Final week, it banned Balfour from the game for 5 years after he admitted to breaking the principles of racing — particularly to partaking in “misconduct, improper conduct, and unseemly habits.”
Reprehensible Actions
A penitent Balfour advised a tribunal that he had no recollection of dropping the official’s slacks and exposing him to a cheering crowd in a nonconsensual vogue, a observe often known as “dacking” in Australian slang. It occurred as a result of he had consumed a considerable amount of alcohol, he confessed.
The tribunal concluded that Balfour’s actions have been “reprehensible and extremely inappropriate,” however stopped in need of imposing the utmost penalty accessible, which was 10 years.
That was largely due to Balfour’s good standing within the trade and a file that included 57 wins from 697 runners between 2010 and 2017 as a coach.
Earlier than that, Balfour loved a reasonably profitable profession as a jockey. Regulators additionally thought-about his responsible plea and the truth that he had apologized to the worker.
Absolutely Uncovered
“Stewards … had regard for his forthrightness on the inquiry, his longstanding involvement within the trade, his private circumstances, and the truth that he confirmed regret for his conduct, which included an apology to the Racing SA compliance officer,” the tribunal discovered.
Nevertheless, stewards additionally thought-about the intense nature of the conduct, the resultant misery brought on to an official, and that objectively considered, by any cheap individual, such conduct could be thought-about reprehensible and intensely inappropriate,” Racing SA added.
The tribunal famous that the unlucky worker was “totally uncovered from the waist right down to quite a few events current.”
Regardless of the relative leniency of the sentence and Balfour’s responsible plea, he’s anticipated to attraction, in response to the Herald.
This isn’t the primary time Balfour has discovered himself in bother with authorities when booze has been concerned. In September 2021, he pleaded responsible to driving an unregistered and uninsured automobile whereas virtually 3 times over the blood alcohol restrict.
Balfour was banned from driving for six months and issued a $900 high-quality.
