Australian jockeys lift strike threat after whip dealAustralia's jockeys lifted their threat of potentially costly strike action on Tuesday after reaching an agreement with racing authorities on controversial whipping WHIPPING, punishment. The infliction of stripes. 2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and northern states to the penitentiary system. rules. The Australian Jockeys' Association and the Australian Racing Board The Australian Racing Board is the peak national administration body for thoroughbred racing in Australia. The statutory bodies for racing in each State or Territory, known as the Principal Racing Authorities, set up the Australian Racing Board by consensual agreement. struck a compromise allowing riders seven indiscriminate in·dis·crim·i·nate adj. 1. Not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective: an indiscriminate shopper; indiscriminate taste in music. 2. strikes of the whip in the last 100 metres (yards), easing tough new restrictions introduced last month. "I wouldn't say it's a big win, maybe a short half-head," said Victoria state jockey representative Ross Inglis. "This also removes the threat of any possible industrial action in relation to racing around Australia." Jockeys staged a sudden strike across four states last Thursday, throwing the industry into turmoil and threatening Melbourne's lucrative Spring Racing Carnival carnival, communal celebration, especially the religious celebration in Catholic countries that takes place just before Lent. Since early times carnivals have been accompanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry that had their origins in culminating in the November 3 Melbourne Cup The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is for three-year-olds and over, and covers a distance of 3,200 metres. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious "two-mile" handicap in the world. . They were angry at rule changes that restricted not only the number of strikes, but whether they were used consecutively or on every other stride in the crucial final stages of a race. "It was locking horns on a situation we could have probably resolved earlier," said racing board chairman Bob Bentley. "What we have done now is give the jockeys choice when they get to the 100 metres. It is now their choice how they use those seven strikes." 
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