O’Brien hearing adjourned

A BRITISH Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing into whether Aidan O’Brien breached the Rules of Racing following the running of Cape Blanco in the Dante at York in May has been adjourned.

The Ballydoyle handler was charged with encouraging or causing his employee Pat Keating to refuse to comply with two instructions given by the stewards following the colt’s victory over subsequent Derby winner Workforce.

The first was that Cape Blanco be trotted up before the BHA vet and the senior racecourse vet as part of their examination of the colt prior to leaving the racecourse, and the second was an instruction to attend a stewards’ inquiry into the refusal.