Culhane gets 14-day ban after causing fall.TONY CULHANE was hit with a 14-day ban for dangerous riding on Mazzola in the Parklands Golfcourse Handicap at Newcastle yesterday. Riding for Mick Channon Michael Roger 'Mick' Channon (born 28 November 1948 in Orcheston, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a sportsman who enjoyed a career as a feared football goalscorer with Southampton and England in the 1970s and later became a hugely successful racehorse trainer. , Culhane crossed towards the far rails from stall seven and squeezed up the two horses on his left, hampering Dispol Grand, causing All Spin, ridden by Paul Mulrennan, to take a crashing fall. The rider, devastated by the incident, said: "It's most unlike me to do that. I knew there was one horse there, I didn't realise there were two. I'm just so thankful Paul wasn't seriously hurt." Culhane's mount finished third but was placed last, behind winner Noodles noo·dle 1 n. A narrow, ribbonlike strip of dried dough, usually made of flour, eggs, and water. [German Nudel. Blue Boy. He misses all racing from September 14-28. Mulrennan was taken to Newcastle General with a broken collarbone col·lar·bone n. See clavicle. , while his mount broke a leg and had to be put down. He missed the winning ride on Nomoreblondes for the in-form Paul Midgley stable in the 5f handicap, Ian Brennan deputising. |
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