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Jockey Hugh Bowman cops six-week ban over race fall that saw horse euthanised, fellow rider hospitalised – ABC News
The former rider of champion mare Winx will miss the first Group One race of the Sydney season for a fall on the weekend that left jockey Andrew Adkins with seven fractured ribs, two broken bones in his leg, a broken collar bone and a collapsed lung.
Prominent jockey Hugh Bowman has been suspended for his role in a race-day fall that forced a horse to be euthanised and left a rival jockey hospitalised with multiple broken bones.
- Hugh Bowman was found guilty of careless riding and banned for six weeks
- Jockey Andrew Adkins broke two bones in one leg, his collar bone, seven ribs and had a collapsed lung
- Bowman said the public scrutiny had taken a toll on him and his family and he wanted stewards to take that into consid…
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