Under-fire Fox to appeal 21-day ban

UNDER-FIRE jockey Sean Fox is “99 per cent certain” to appeal against the 21-day suspension he was given by the stewards over his riding of Ice Saint at Fontwell on Monday.

The rider was suspended for 21 days after the stewards found the rider in breach of rule 157, which states it is an offence for a jockey to fail to take all reasonable measures to obtain the best possible placing "with the intention of concealing the true ability of the horse or affecting the result of the race", in that he had stepped off the horse.

The horse opened at 2-1 on course and drifted to a starting price of 4-1 before the Cantor Sport Beginners' Chase and a newspaper this morning claimed that they were told the horse would not win in an anonymous phone call before the race.