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<\/p>\nTop class horse racing jockey Vincent Ho has been banned for five weeks despite winning a race at Happy Valley in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Ho was deemed not to have ridden his mount out fully when he finished dead-heat on 15\/1 outsider Capital Delight on Wednesday. The 33-year-old jockey appeared to ask for more from the four-year-old gelding, bursting through the field into the home straight and continuously using the whip and pushing on towards the finish line.<\/p>\n
But stewards believed that Ho didn\u2019t continue to push all the way up to the line and claimed that he should\u2019ve won the race rather than dead-heating with 13\/1 shot Lucky Archangel who finished on the near side.<\/p>\n
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Both Ho and other jockey Angus Chung won shares in the \u00a359,000 prize for the Class 3 handicap race. Speaking after the race, Ho claimed his horse "stayed on strongly in the final furlong". But stewards disagreed and handed him a five week ban, citing Ho had put his whip away before the line.<\/p>\n
A statement from the stewards regarding the incident said: "Ho was found guilty of a charge under Rule 100(2) in that he failed to ride his mount out all the way to the end of the race to the satisfaction of the stewards.<\/p>\n
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"Having considered precedent penalties, jockey Ho's record in relation to like offences and the nature of the breach in circumstances where his mount dead-heated for first placing, the stewards believed the appropriate penalty was for Ho's licence to ride in races be suspended for a period to commence on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 and to expire on Monday, November 20, 2023."<\/p>\n
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Ho was left furious with the ban and has launched an appeal against the punishment. Top UK-based jockey Neil Callan branded the decision \u2018unbelievable\u2019 as he backed his fellow rider. Ho has amassed winnings of just under \u00a31million from 30 rides so far this season.<\/p>\n