The Warwick stewards held an enquiry into the running and riding of Klic Boum, beaten 36 lengths in the 12.53pm race at Warwick on Thursday, with jockey Adam Wedge also receiving a 14-day suspension
Closing stages of Klic Boum’s race At Warwick
Trainer Evan Williams has said he will not appeal a £3,290 fine he was handed for the running of a horse at Warwick.
Klic Boum was a rank outsider at 250-1 and finished seventh in a two-mile maiden hurdle with jockey Adam Wedge riding on Thursday afternoon. On-course stewards held an enquiry after the longshot completed the second race of seven at the West Midlands circuit.
They handed a £3,000 punishment to Williams and slapped Wedge with a 14-day suspension for “schooling and conditioning the horse on the racecourse.”
A report by the Racing Post’s analyst claimed the four-year-old, beaten an average of 35 lengths in four appearances this season, had been “tenderly handled.”
It added that Klic Boum, outpaced at the fifth flight, was given a reminder with the whip and kept on towards the finish.
As part of the ruling, the thoroughbred is banned from competing for 40 days and Williams will have to pay an additional £290 for failing to inform his representative of the rider’s instructions.
Williams told Mirror Racing: “I am not going to appeal. I wasn’t there and it is just one of those things. Nobody has died. We will move on – tomorrow is a new day.”
After the contest, won by 5-6 favourite Castle Ivers, Wedge informed British Horseracing Authority representatives that his instructions were to drop the horse in and finish strongly.
In his opinion Klic Boum was flat out heading into the back straight and after he used his whip, the gelding hung right-handed and continued to do so in the home straight.
The stewards report added: “The trainer’s representative was unaware of the instructions which had been given by the trainer over the phone on the morning of the race and therefore had no further opinion to offer.
“Wedge reported that he had spoken to the trainer over the telephone after the race and he was satisfied with the ride according with those instructions.
“Wedge was suspended for 14 days and Williams fined £3000 for schooling and conditioning the horse on the racecourse in that Wedge had failed to ride his mount in such a way that he could be seen to ask for timely, real and substantial effort to obtain the best possible placing.
“The stewards formed the opinion that the Wedge’s riding up the home straight was not hampered by the horse hanging right-handed.”