• Apprentice Jamie Powell banned from riding for 28 days
• Manxman promoted to first place after BHA ruling

Alphonse Le Grande, who squeezed home by a nose from Manxman in the £175,000 Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket on Saturday under the apprentice jockey Jamie Powell, has become the most high-profile winner to be disqualified for a whip offence by its rider since the penalty was introduced at the start of 2023.

The initial impression among most observers after Saturday’s race was that Powell used his whip 10 times in the final quarter-mile aboard Cathy O’Leary’s gelding, four more than the limit of six strokes in Flat races and the trigger-point for automatic disqualification if subsequently confirmed by the British Horseracing Authority’s whip review committee.