£8,315 matched at 1.01 on Betfair.
I suppose it has happened before and will happen again but it still doesn’t make it right.
No doubt he is feeling horrendous but he can’t have any complaints about the penalty. What he did was unacceptable. He has to take it on the chin and learn.
All I will say is there was another case recently where a higher profile jockey received no ban after the stewards believed his cock and bull story. It wasn’t an identical case and maybe it wasn’t quite as bad. But the perception is it is easier for the stewards to throw the book at an apprentice.
Punters of Ahoy Senor at Aintree yesterday were arguably not well served by the jockey either.