STAR jockey Frankie Dettori will miss the final two days of next week's opening York race meeting of the season, and Pat Eddery will miss all three days of the meeting.
Dettero was suspended for four days yesterday at Doncaster after his ride on runner-up Al Moughazel in the Doncaster Racecourse Sponsorship Club Conditions Stakes.
He was judged guilty of using the whip with excessive frequency and not giving his mount time to respond in the one-mile event.
Dettori will be sidelined May 15-18 inclusive, which means he will miss the Convergent Communications Dante Stakes and the Merewood Homes Yorkshire Cup on Knavesmire, as well as Newbury's two-day meeting which features theJuddmonte Lockinge Stakes.
"It is unfortunate that I will miss some of York, but I will not be appealing - some days you are lucky, some days you are not," he said.
Eddery has been suspended for five days for a whip offence on Snowfire, runner-up to Kazzia in the 1,000 Guineas on Saturday. The suspension covers all three days of York's meeting starting next Tuesday.
Richard Hughes will miss the third day of York's Dante meeting after receiving a one-day ban (May 16) for careless riding on the top-weight Leadership in the kempton.co.uk Handicap yesterday.
Hughes' mount, who finished fifth, was found to have interfered with Chris Rutter on the unplaced Triplemoon over two furlongs out in a contest won by the Richard Hannon-trained Tertullian.
Updated: 11:57 Tuesday, May 07, 2002
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