“I see Byrnes the Younger received a 21 day ban from the stewards earlier this week:
It looks like he was penalised under the dangerous riding rule. The stewards report states he “rode in a way which was far below that of a competent and careful rider”. ”
No effort to get his right hand down and straighten the horse at all.
If I was Friar Hogan’s owner I would be raging, horse was going great guns and horse and jockey had absolutely no chance to stay inside the wings . Danny Mullins on the horse promoted to winner was luckier as he had room to jump and had the presence of mind to ride out strongly to the line and let the horse roll on plenty afterwards, before eventually pulling up, to prove the point that he would have won without interference (and probably so as not to have to turn his head to look at Nine Bob Note Byrnes beside him)