Five-day whip ban for McCoy
McCoy was deemed to have used his whip once more than the allotted eight times on Jonjo O’Neill’s Caddie Master, runner-up in the three-mile pearns.co.uk Putting Patients First Handicap Hurdle won by Frontier Dancer.
The stewards ruled McCoy had used his whip with excessive frequency, and he will be suspended on November 20-24 inclusive. McCoy told At The Races: “I’ve been riding for a long time and you ride the way you’ve always ridden.
“I gave him a flick after the third-last and obviously I forgot about it, but it was literally a flick and that counts as a smack now. It was barely a flick — I’d have done more good if I’d have patted him I think.”
