Share on Facebook

Jockey suspended for racial abuse

Mark Oberhardt

Wednesday 5 February 2014, 4:08pm

BRISBANE February 5 AAP - Racing Queensland stewards have suspended jockey Melody O'Brien for six weeks for racially abusing fellow jockey Bradley Appo.

Stewards opened an inquiry into an incident at the Toowoomba races last Saturday night.

At a resumed inquiry on Wednesday O'Brien pleaded guilty to making a racial slur to Appo, who is of indigenous descent.

Stewards ordered the suspension start on midnight this Saturday and expire at midnight on March 22.

During her suspension O'Brien must have three sessions with a Racing Queensland psychologist before she can regain her licence to ride.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »