Monday’s hearing at IHRB headquarters on the Curragh is due to start at 9.30am. File photograph: Damien Eagers
On Monday morning, an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) referrals committee panel is due to start a hearing into the circumstances of how jockey Philip Byrnes was unseated from his mount Redwood Queen in a hugely controversial race at Wexford in May.
What the Racing Post has labelled as “the most talked-about episode of the Irish racing year” involved how Redwood Queen, trained by the jockey’s father, Charles Byrnes, appeared to have a claiming hurdle race in the bag only for her rider to part company at the final flight.
The incident immediately provoked huge levels of comment,
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