Cross cops three months
01/08/2010 06:10:08 AM
Victorian jockey Brady Cross has been found guilty of failing to give one of his mounts every chance in a race and has been subsequently suspended for three months by Victorian stewards.
Cross, one of the leading country jockeys in Victoria, was found to have not taken all reasonable and permissible measures on his mount Horace in a race at Echuca on New Year's Eve.
The stewards determined that Cross had failed to improve Horace's position from up until the 500m mark of the race and then failed to ride the horse with sufficient vigour in the final 400m of the race.
He was found guilty of breaching AR.135.(b) & (c), and handed a three-month ban beginning on Monday January 12 and finishing on Monday April 12.
The stewards panel took evidence from Cross and well as trainer Neil Dyer, who was cleared of any wrongdoing over the handling of Horace.