Kirk vindicated as Woodukheleyfit is awarded race at Wolverhampton

Sylvester Kirk won an appeal on Thursday morning against the decision by Wolverhampton stewards to disqualify maiden winner Woodukheleyfit for causing interference even though there was no contact between first and second.

The two-year-old gelding had been demoted to second after the racecourse panel found his drift to the right, which also caused Bayston Hill to shift across, had cost the second both ground and momentum before suffering a head defeat in a July 5 maiden auction race.

But at an appeal hearing in London, Kirk argued the interference was minimal and his horse would have won anyway, a view the BHA appeal panel supported.