RACING: The result of last week's controversial mile handicap at Limerick was changed at the Turf Club yesterday after a successful appeal by the connections of the original winner Langkwai Bay.
The Thomond O'Mara-trained horse was thrown out of first place on the day after a lengthy stewards' inquiry decided he had caused interference to one of the horses who dead-heated for second, Bruegel.
Langkwai Bay was demoted to second with the other dead-heater, Barella, put back to third. However, the Turf Club's appeals and referrals committee yesterday allowed the appeal on the basis that Langkawi Bay didn't cause sufficent interference to be disqualified. It was decided, however, that Barella did cause enough interference to merit disqualification.
The result now reads Langkawi Bay in first, Bruegel in second and Barella in third.
In a separate case yesterday, the committee disqualified Temptation Island from first in the apprentice handicap at Down Royal on September 3rd after the prohibited substances Phenylbutazone and Oxphenbutazone were found in the horses system. Trainer John Quinn was fined €130.
Finglas-born Robert Winston reached 100 winners for the first time in a season with a 77 to 1 double on Mintlaw and Shape Up at Musselburgh yesterday. The 24-year-old was a leading graduate of his year at the apprentice school in Kildare.
