Wayne Lordan will be unavailable for the entire Doncaster St Leger meeting as well as Irish Champions Weekend under the dates issued for the suspension
Aidan O’Brien is set to have to negotiate one of the biggest weekends in the racing calendar without one of his key jockeys.
Wayne Lordan is the established number two rider behind Ryan Moore in the Ballydoyle set-up, a role he has made his own this season by winning the Epsom Derby on Lambourn and Goodwood Cup on Betfred St Leger favourite Scandinavia. Both Lambourn and Scandinavia are being primed for the season’s final Classic at Doncaster on September 13.
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Depending on O’Brien’s priorities Lordan would be in line to partner either challenger, especially if Ryan Moore is required at Leopardstown where Delacroix is set to run in the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes, part of the two day Irish Champions Weekend, on the same day.
Yet after riding at Goodwood on Sunday, Lordan was referred to the British Horseracing Authority’s Whip Review Committee for breaching the rules on the two-year-old filly Precise, who he steered to victory in the Group 3 Prestige Fillies’ Stakes.
The Committee ruled on Tuesday that Lordan will serve a ten day suspension after he was found to have used his whip in the incorrect place on three occasions from one furlong out. The jockey was also fined £1,250.
And under the dates issued he will be on the sidelines from Tuesday September 9 to Thursday, September 18, inclusive, which covers the period of the St Leger meeting and the Irish Champions Weekend fixtures at Leopardstown and the Curragh, which features the Irish St Leger.
Lordan was one of several jockeys to pick up whip bans from the racing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Among the most notable was an eight day suspension for Zak Wheatley who went one stroke above the whip limit when winning the Gimcrack Stakes on Lifeplan.
Kevin Stott was referred to the Judicial Panel after committing his fourth offence in six months when breaching the limit on 100-1 Nunthorpe Stakes runner-up Ain’t Nobody,
Sean Levey picked up a four day ban for going one over on Rosallion while Connor Beasley was banned for seven days after going two strikes on sprint handicapper Commanche Falls on the same day.