‘They need to grow a pair!’ – Former champion jockey BLASTS Cesarewitch fiasco after £90,000 winner disqualified

FORMER champion jockey Seb Sanders has slated the drawn-out process that saw Cesarewitch winner Alphonse Le Grande stripped of his £90,000 victory.

The Cathy O’Leary-trained horse was first past the post in the big Newmarket race but jockey Jamie Powell has been found guilty of an ‘egregious’ whip rules breach.

The BHA announced on Tuesday that 33-1 Alphonse Le Grande had been disqualified and the Simon and Ed Crisford-trained Manxman named winner in his place.