Updated On: 08 September, 2013 02:11 AM IST | | Prakash Gosavi
English jockey Martin Dwyer, who was in the eye of a storm after the loss of public favourite Ice Age in February this year at the Mahalaxmi racecourse, managed to get partial relief from the board of appeal of RWITC when, in a marathon meeting held at the Pune racecourse on Saturday morning, the board reduced Dwyer's sentence from eight months to 55 days.
It may be noted that the stewards of RWITC had originally sentenced the Epsom Derby winning jockey to 55 days, but later, when the appeal board referred the matter back to them for reconsideration, they had enhanced the suspension period to eight months, terming it as a fresh inquiry.

Martin Dwyer