Philip Armson, one of the season’s leading conditional jockeys with 24 winners, has been ruled out of next month’s Cheltenham Festival by a whip ban following the latest meeting of the British Horseracing Authority’s new Whip Review Committee.
Armson, who is attached to the David Pipe stable, was banned for 14 days from 14 March, the opening day of the Festival, after he was found to have used his whip 10 times, three more than the limit, when riding Gwencily Berbas to a two-and-a-half-length success in the Devon National at Exeter on Friday. He was also fined £650 and ordered to spend a day of his suspension at the British Racing School for training.
