Favourite awarded race in stewards room after winner carries wrong weight

The Jamie Osborne-trained Hierarchy, comfy victor of the 6f handicap, was disqualified aft the value cloth had been near successful the saddling area

A equine was disqualified astatine Lingfield connected Wednesday aft moving without the close weight.

Hierarchy, a six-year-old gelding trained by Jamie Osborne with 3 wins to his name, lined up a 15-2 accidental for the £7,100 6f handicap astatine the Surrey track.

He had been allocated a value of 9st 9lb nether jockey William Carver who went connected to steer the equine to a comfy win.

Yet moments aft the jockey weighed in, the clerk of the scales lodged an objection due to the fact that of a discrepancy implicit the magnitude of value Carver returned at.

A stewards enquiry recovered determination was a 4.5lb quality with the jockey and his saddle showing 9st 4.5lb connected the scales.

Osborne’s typical told stewards that Hierarchy had been saddled successful the stables connected this occasion.

The value cloth had been enactment successful the country of the unchangeable but subsequently not placed connected the equine “as a effect of the gelding being tricky to saddle”.

A BHA integrity serviceman aboriginal located the value cloth successful the unchangeable and it was confirmed arsenic weighing 4.5lb.

Hierarchy was disqualified, placed past and the contention awarded to 2nd past the station and the 5-2 favourite Whenthedealinsdone, trained by Roger Teal and ridden by Elisha Whittington. Osborne was fined £1,500.

Teal, speaking to Sky Sports Racing, said: “It’s not the mode you privation it to happen. These mistakes hap from clip to time.

“Obviously determination was a spot of an vantage with the weights by not carrying it truthful it’s a just effect successful the end.

“It would person been bully to triumph just and square. I consciousness atrocious for Jamie and his squad due to the fact that nary 1 wants that to happen.

“It’s been done earlier by immoderate precise large trainers. It’s 1 of those things. I consciousness precise atrocious for the young lad it’s happened to but I’m definite Jamie volition enactment him and the owners volition beryllium understanding.

“No 1 does these things deliberately. It’s conscionable an accident.”