Five-day whip ban for McCoy

CHAMPION jump jockey Tony McCoy fell foul of the new whip rules for the first time at Ffos Las yesterday.

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.