{"id":48627,"date":"2025-08-06T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:44:19","slug":"he-was-leaning-on-my-lad-as-much-as-my-lad-was-leaning-on-him-noel-meade-confirms-appeal-against-galway-hurdle-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48627\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was leaning on my lad as much as my lad was leaning on him\u2019 \u2013 Noel Meade confirms appeal against Galway Hurdle verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ndaawi, left, with Jack Kennedy up, crosses the line in the Guinness Galway Hurdle beside Helvic Dream and Donagh Meyler with Ndaawi getting the verdict following a stewards' enquiry. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.independent.ie\/thumbor\/UrTnUT5n3iIaKWZhv4-o8YGWdkE=\/29x32:3121x2089\/960x640\/prod-mh-ireland\/c298a6a8-da75-42b2-b364-0c26d327487d\/ff177df0-904a-44b9-977d-79b4580314ff\/141b9c5e-a431-4aee-aecf-83d20d77c21b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ndaawi, left, with Jack Kennedy up, crosses the line in the Guinness Galway Hurdle beside Helvic Dream and Donagh Meyler with Ndaawi getting the verdict following a stewards&#8217; enquiry. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Noel Meade has confirmed he has lodged an appeal against the demotion of Helvic Dream from first place in last week&#8217;s Galway Hurdle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meade&#8217;s eight-year-old was first past the post, getting the better of the Gordon Elliott-trained Ndaawi by a head, only for the stewards to reverse the placings, ruling interference between the pair had affected the result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking at Sligo on Wednesday, Meade said: &#8220;We put an appeal in yesterday and it&#8217;s up on Tuesday, so we&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Despite what everyone seems to think, every video I look at seems to suggest that Jack (Kennedy, on Ndaawi) got every chance to win the race and didn&#8217;t go through with it as much as anything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;He was leaning on my lad as much as my lad was leaning on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ndaawi, left, with Jack Kennedy up, crosses the line in the Guinness Galway Hurdle beside Helvic Dream and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[16176,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-48627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-galway-races","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}