whip rules breaches

Grand National Festival winner Laafi (Cloth Of Stars) has been disqualified after jockey Patrick O'Brien was found to have breached whip regulations. The six-year-old, trained in Ireland by William Durkan, was a 20-1 winner of the Debenhams Handicap Hurdle at Aintree on Friday, a race restricted to conditional jockeys and amateur riders. The British Horseracing Authority's Whip Review Committee subsequently found that O'Brien had used his whip four times above the permitted level of seven from jumping the second last and, taking into account that none of the uses were...

Marco Ghiani, the champion apprentice in the UK in 2021, has been handed a 34-day ban by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA)'s Whip Review Committee. Ghiani broke the whip rules for the fifth time in the last six months. A total of nine days of his ban have been deferred for a period of six months, and he will also need to complete a two-day training course. The rider already has a win at Royal Ascot to his credit with Real World (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), and is also a...