Trainer Charlie McBride hopes to draw a line under the Yarmouth saga which saw him saddle the 'wrong' horse to victory. The Newmarket-based trainer was fined £1,500 at a hearing of the British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel on Thursday and had no qualms about the outcome. McBride thought he had saddled 50-1 shot Mandarin Princess (GB) (Vale of York {Ire}) to win the opening 2-year-old race at the Norfolk circuit last month, but it was older stablemate Millie's Kiss (GB) (Aussie Rules {Ire}) who passed the post in first place.
“It was simply an honest mistake,” said McBride. “I've been fined £1,500 and I hope that is the end of the matter now. We had a fair hearing, no complaints, and it won't happen again.”
The BHA tweeted: “Mandarin Princess dq'd from race at Yarmouth on 27 July on grounds that the horse that ran was not Mandarin Princess but Millie's Kiss. Trainer Philip [Charlie] McBride fined £1,500 for breach of (C)37.2 by running a different horse in the race to the horse named at time of entry.”
Millie's Kiss has since run at Windsor, finishing fourth of eight.
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