The Skilled Jockeys Affiliation (PJA) has lodged an attraction on behalf of Callum Shepherd in opposition to an 18-day ban following a controversial dead-heat end at Kempton.
Driving the David Simcock-trained Thorntonledale Max within the seven-furlong handicap on Wednesday August 21, Shepherd was discovered to have failed “to take all reasonable and permissible measures on a horse which would have finished outright first” after Flavour Maker grabbed a share of the primary prize on the road.
Nonetheless, Shepherd has expressed his doubt concerning the dead-heat name, and consequently the choice to impose a prolonged ban for his journey.
Shepherd is at present set to be out of motion from September 4-21 inclusive, a interval which encompasses the St Leger assembly at Doncaster and the Ayr Gold Cup fixture.
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) will affirm a date for the attraction sooner or later.
Talking final week, Shepherd advised the Nick Luck Each day Podcast: “To my eyes, and the eyes of everybody who has checked out it intimately, I feel it reveals a transparent hole between the Roger Varian-trained horse [Flavour Maker] and the road. We’re very a lot on and thru the road.
Shepherd is at present as a result of miss the St Leger assembly at Doncaster and the Ayr Gold Cup fixture
“It was 8.30pm, the final race, it was darkish however all you need to do is put your cellphone on full brightness and I feel it is fairly obvious to everybody who seems that it could be a small margin, however there’s a distinct hole and a margin in our favour.
“It’s one they have got wrong, I feel.
“A dead-heat in another circumstance would appear fairly inoffensive, nevertheless it should be mentioned on this particular case it is very, crucial to me, whatever the accusation that I might stopped driving, which I fully refute.
“The most straightforward process of dealing with it is to address the photo and I think it’s pretty clear an error has been made and we were the outright winner.”
