Horse Racing Lingfield Today

Social news was rife with conjecture the judge labeled as not the right outcome

THE BHA has actually amended the result of last Saturday's bumper at Lingfield and awarded the race to 4-1 runner-up Quarenta, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and ridden by Joshua Moore.

The choice to demote Mick Channon's 5-2 favourite The Blue Bomber, partnered by Gavin Sheehan, had been announced on Thursday early morning and accompanied social media marketing conjecture the judge had known as the incorrect result.

The first photo finish showing Quarenta near-side

The brightened picture: Quarenta's mind is the greater

The 2m contest ended up being run in gathering gloom since the last race from the card and determined in a between your two principals, with the 3rd horse, Fella, six lengths straight back. The judge decided The Blue Bomber had held in by the narrowest of margins, giving the winning distance as a nose.

Quarenta's promotion will undoubtedly be a sour capsule for people who backed him whilst the initial outcome represents betting reasons, however some organizations have said they'll pay out on amended result.

In a declaration, the BHA said it absolutely was urgently reviewing the standard of pictures produced in photo finishes, particularly in reasonable light.

It said: "The BHA has been doing conversations with racecourses, including Lingfield Park, in which issues have already been held across quality of the photo-finish produced where the image is influenced by distance and deteriorating light. These conversations tend to be continuous with a view to locating a fair solution asap.

"also, the BHA will consider the procedures and methods followed by judges where the quality of the image produced is so that it shouldn't be relied upon alone."

In 2013 Dave Smith lost their work as a judge for phoning a dead-heat at Kempton which was later on overturned.

The BHA amended caused by the 7f two-year-old maiden, providing a nostrils verdict in favour of even-money favourite Extra Noble. Smith's contract had been ended with immediate result.