Stubbs all set for open hearing

APPRENTICE Kristin Stubbs will make history at the Jockey Club next week, when she becomes the first rider ever to take part in a disciplinary hearing open to the press.

The 24-year-old has launched an appeal against a two-day suspension collected for careless riding at Wolverhampton on Monday. And her hearing, scheduled to take place next Thursday, will become the first not to be held behind closed doors.

Also scheduled for the same day will be the hearing into the weighing-room fracas between jockeys Neil Callan and Shane Kelly at Lingfield on Wednesday.