team tactics

Christophe Soumillon has appealed the eight-day suspension he received for 'team tactics' when aboard Aidan O'Brien's Puerto Rico (Wootton Bassett) in Tuesday's G1 St James's Palace Stakes, according to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). The Belgian was riding one of two Aidan O'Brien-trained runners in the one-mile race alongside G1 Irish 2000 Guineas hero Gstaad (Starspangledbanner) and was deemed by the stewards to have ridden "in a manner to benefit Gstaad". The stewards ruled Soumillon had ridden his mount "in such a way that intended to give an advantage to...