Jockey sacked for not swerving

The popular jockey collected his cards as retained rider to Scutter Holdings for not swerving and hindering the eventual winner when he was in front 100 yards from the winning post.

Hitting the front one furlong from home in the 4/9, Get 2/5 instead with Mugbet Boosting Your Odds Down Handicap at Chelmsford, Archer maintained a straight line so as not to interfere with the other runners.

However, he was passed by Tarquin Bibby on the eventual winner, Jimmy Jumpsuit.

Senior steward Gareth Timms said: "He could have at least tried to put Bibby over the rail. I don't know what he was doing fannying around being a goody-two-shoes.

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"We wouldn't have disqualified him - jockeys must kill each other before we even sound the 'Enquiry' jingle."

A heated argument broke out in the winners’ enclosure between Archer and his retained owner, Darren Donaldson over his failure to ride 'dirty'.

Bibby said: “Jockeys swerve here every day. What was this idiot doing? Everyone explains it all away as ‘wandering about’, ‘running off a true line’ or ‘greenness’.”