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The ICAC swoop is racing's comet, racing's evolutionary disaster

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Last week's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) raids on a number of local apprentices and local jockeys is not something from which racing should cower.

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It was, I think, Gandhi who uttered the seemingly unpenetrable phrase 'fair is foul and foul is useful'.

Seen in the context of the ICAC swoop, it could be argued that racing was previously chugging along in a fair period.

Everything seems fair, nothing much needs changing. We're all, apparently, doing rather well.

But beneath the surface, unnoticed in this seemingly halcyon period, there were other forces at work - forces which last week led to the jailing of apprentice Keith Kwok Ting for six months after he admitted receiving money not to try in a race designated for the local riders.

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Now that the foulness is out in the open, it can be used to work in racing's favour. Foul can, indeed, be made useful.

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