McCoy to appeal against 10-day ban

TONY MCCOY is to appeal against the 10-day ban he received at Bangor for failing to ride out for third place.

The champion jump jockey was deemed to have dropped his hands on the Jonjo O’Neill-trained Batten Down (7-2) in the cantorsport.co.uk Novices’ Handicap Chase on Friday. He had been hard at work on the six-year-old in the final mile but was held after taking the final fence, and when he momentarily eased up he was beaten a short head for third by Finzi.

“I am definitely going to appeal. In this instance I think it’s in the best interests of racing that a jockey goes out and makes sure he brings the owner’s horse back in one piece, and that is what I was trying to do,” McCoy told Channel 4.