Paddy Brennan receives 18-day ban and Fergal O’Brien fined £4,000 for horse schooling at Wincanton.

The Wincanton stewards found that jockey Brennan failed to ride Northern Air in a way that showed “timely, real and substantial effort” to secure the best possible placement. Northern Air, purchased for £105,000 in December by O’Brien and Brennan, had won a mares’ maiden at Dromahane the previous month. Brennan rode the five-year-old to a sixth-place finish in a Newbury […]