RACING:KIRSTY Milczarek is set for a return to the saddle after a successful appeal against a two-year ban imposed by the British Horseracing Authority in December.
Milczarek came under scrutiny for her ride on Obe Gold in August 2009 at Lingfield. Milczarek had reportedly been told the horse could be difficult in the stalls and not to take the blindfold off until the last possible moment, but the panel found she removed it four seconds before the stalls opened. By the time the stalls opened the horse dived to its left, slamming her shoulder into the upright causing an injury which the disciplinary panel said would then have affected her ride. At the disciplinary panel hearing, she was found not guilty of a breach of Rule 157 (intentionally failing to ensure that a horse is run on its merits) but in breach of Rule 201 (v).
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