Blow to O’Brien’s title hopes

THERE are 15 days left in the Irish flat season and Joseph O’Brien (pictured above) is set to miss nine of them.

Blow to O’Brien’s title hopes

His appeal at the Turf Club yesterday, against a four-day ban for careless riding on Treasure Beach in a nursery at the Listowel Festival, was turned down.

He will also have to serve a two-day ban for excessive use of the whip aboard Battleoftrafalgar, also at Listowel.

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