Coach sorry for ‘women can’t ride’ comments

A jockeys’ coach has apologised after a BBC interview in which he told Katie Walsh that women “can’t ride”.

Walsh, who won the Irish Grand National on Thunder And Roses in April, said Michael Tebbutt’s remarks were made in jest but the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) claimed the comments were “unacceptable”.

Tebbutt made the faux pas when Walsh, who was commissioned by BBC Sport to look at equality in racing for Women’s Sport Week, asked him what the main difference was between a male and female jockey.