Jockey Callum Pritchard has been handed a 12-day ban after misjudging the winning post and easing up his horse with a circuit left to run at Plumpton on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Riding 2-1 joint-favourite Sweet Nightingale, Pritchard looked well placed for victory in the Super Nigel Boardman Novices’ Handicap Chase.<\/p>\n
He led by seven lengths but slowed his horse prematurely, having seemingly miscalculated the race distance.<\/p>\n
Sweet Nightingale swiftly fell from first to the back of the four-horse field, and while Pritchard then realised his error, the 25-year-old jockey could only recover to finish third.<\/p>\n
Pritchard is a contender for the conditional jockey championship and has won 39 races this season.<\/p>\n
Imposing a punishment for the erratic ride, British Horseracing Authority stewards said: “Callum Pritchard, the rider of Sweet Nightingale, [who] placed third, had appeared to mistake the race distance.<\/p>\n
“Having established a reasonable lead on the run to the line with a circuit to race, he prematurely eased and thereafter only commenced the race having passed the winning post with a circuit to run.<\/p>\n
“After being interviewed and shown recordings of the incident, the rider was suspended for 12 days.”<\/p>\n
Tristan Durrell leads the conditional championship, which is decided by the number of wins in National Hunt races between 3 May 2025 and 25 April 2026.<\/p>\n
Pritchard, who sits in third, now faces an uphill battle to catch Durrell after his suspension ends.<\/p>\n
Milan Milos triumphed in Sunday’s unusually dramatic race, beating Delgany Deadline and Pritchard’s Sweet Nightingale, a mare trained by Polly Gundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jockey Callum Pritchard has been handed a 12-day ban after misjudging the winning post and easing up his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-383751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}