Thursday hearing for Hughes

Title-chasing jockey Richard Hughes will have his appeal against the severity of a six-day ban heard by the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday at 9.30am.

Hughes has appealed over the punishment given to him by the Wolverhampton stewards for careless riding when winning division two of the Cleanwastesolutions Handicap on Aviso on Saturday evening.

The stewards at the Dunstall Park course found that in manoeuvring his mount to the left Hughes had caused multiple interference.

They suspended him for six days (October 16 and October 18-22), which would see him miss Champions' Day at Newmarket on October 16.

Any ban would be a huge blow to Hughes' hopes of winning the jockeys' championship that ends on November 6.