THE push for amendment to the controversial new whip rules is set to intensify after leading jockey Corey Brown was caught out by the video review panel, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: Racing NSW stewards yesterday slapped Brown with another two-meeting ban for breaching the whip rules. It was added to the six dished out after Brown was beaten in a photo-finish in last Friday's Wyong Cup on board Lodge The Deeds. The stewards review panel found Brown had also broken the ''three strik

THE push for amendment to the controversial new whip rules is set to intensify after leading jockey Corey Brown was caught out by the video review panel, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

It says: Racing NSW stewards yesterday slapped Brown with another two-meeting ban for breaching the whip rules. It was added to the six dished out after Brown was beaten in a photo-finish in last Friday's Wyong Cup on board Lodge The Deeds. The stewards review panel found Brown had also broken the ''three strikes in a row'' rule at Wyong when beaten narrowly on Ivory Pegasus in the Mona Lisa Plate.

''Again it was a head-and-head finish and I've hit it three more times than I should have,'' Brown said at Warwick Farm yesterday.

''The way the rule is, it doesn't work. It is blatantly obvious those within the industry, including jockeys, were never consulted on the new rules. We all could have come to some compromise if we were consulted.''

Brown, along with champion rider Damien Oliver and former federal government primary industries minister Peter McGauran, are set to meet the Australian Racing Board at its Sydney offices tomorrow.

''I've never known the industry to be so united on an issue,'' McGauran said yesterday.

He is now the chief executive officer of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia and was at Warwick Farm on a fact-finding mission. McGauran spoke to a number of trainers, jockeys, owners, bookmakers and punters, with all offering opinions on the whip rules.

''Usually the industry is divided and often at each other's throats [but] I've yet to find anyone who doesn't believe a compromise is needed to maintain confidence in the integrity of the sport,'' he said.

High-profile bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse says the introduction of the whip rules on August 1 continues ''to drive punters mad'' while warning ''they do have so many other things to bet on''.