Racing
Sherry outed for a month over Rosehill fall
Tommy Sherry has been charged with careless riding over a race day fall in the San Domenico Stakes.
Jockey Tom Sherry has been suspended for a calendar month for his part in the incident that led to Tyreek and jockey Dylan Gibbons crashing through the running rail in the Up And Coming Stakes at Rosehill.
The fall happened near the 300m mark in the home straight as Sherry on eventual winner Grand Prairie jostled with James Mcdonald aboard Grand Prairie, both riders shooting for the same run.
Their situations were exacerbated by the two horses ahead of them, leader Crown The King who wandered out slightly, and Aerodrome who was racing wider and shifted in.
The larger Grand Prairie won the battle for the gap, shunting Providence back to the inside with that horse catapulted onto Tyreek, causing him to run out of galloping room and fall.
Gibbons was fortunate to walk away from the incident uninjured while Tyreek was transported to the Randwick Equine Centre with a leg injury where he was sadly unable to be saved.
"We were pretty tight," Gibbons told Racing NSW stewards, who opened a race day inquiry into the fall.
"When James rolled off (the fence) it allowed me to get up underneath him. What happened after that happened."
McDonald argued he held a one-off position throughout the straight and was angling his horse into the split before Sherry and Grand Prairie came on the scene
"I've stayed one-off the fence the whole way but got shunted back down (to the fence)," he said.
Sherry saw it differently saying, "I completely disagree with Mr McDonald's evidence", adamant he had established a run and was entitled to it.
Stewards eventually charged Sherry with careless riding, finding that he improved into a position between Providence and Aerodrome when there was insufficient room and then rode his mount with vigour through the opening.
"It had the effect of forcing Providence in across the running of Tyreek, which collided with the running rail and dislodged rider Dylan Gibbons," chief steward Tom Moxon said.
Sherry pleaded not guilty but stewards found the charge sustained, suspending Sherry for a calendar month due primarily to the consequences of the interference.
Sherry is set to start a careless riding penalty stemming from the midweek program on Sunday with his Up And Coming Stakes suspension to begin on September 7 and expire on October 8.
Tommy Berry also fell foul of stewards, outed for six meetings for allowing San Domenico Stakes winner Raging Force to shift in over the final stages, causing McDonald on runner-up Wodeton to check.
His penalty will start on Sunday September 7 and he can resume riding on Saturday September 20, ruling him out of The Marks Stakes meeting and The Run To The Rose mount on Raging Force.
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