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Ban rules Morris out of all-weather finale

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Luke Morris: 11 clear in the all-weather title race

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 By Graham Dench 6:25PM 5 MAR 2016 

LUKE MORRIS is to appeal a controversial five-day ban that, should it stand, will rule him out of Good Friday’s All-Weather Championships Finals Day and might even cost him the winter season’s jockeys’ title, worth £10,000 to the winner.

Morris incurred the ban in Lingfield’s opening 1m4f handicap on Mark Loughnane’s Apache Glory, a recent course-and-distance winner who this time was struggling a long way out and was eased right down in a distant last.

The stewards found that Morris had “continued in the race when it was contrary to the mare’s welfare to do so, having failed to pull up after easing her approximately four furlongs out when he acknowledged there was a problem which was materially affecting her performance”.

Morris, who would miss the ride on last year’s Finals Day winner Lightscameraction among others, described the ban as “very harsh” and added that he would speak to Paul Struthers, chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association, and solicitor Rory MacNeice but planned to appeal.

‘She was physically fine’

He said: “It was probably about two and a half hours after the race that I was called in. I’d ridden her exactly as normal in the race. She wasn’t really going, and I just thought she was either flat or had possibly bled. I took a long, glancing look and saw she hadn’t bled, but although she wasn’t really going she was moving fine, so I just eased her down and looked after her.

“I let her hack back and the vet saw her in the chute and she was fine, but later in the day she returned lame and that was when they called me in. They said I should have pulled her up to a complete halt, but as you can see on the film the filly was physically fine.”

A later win on Apache Glory’s stable companion Charlie Lad meant Morris ended the day 11 clear of Adam Kirby at the head of the all-weather title race.

 

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