Jye McNeil Wins Careless Riding Appeal

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In-form Melbourne has been successful in an appeal against a for his ride in the .

McNeil rode four winners at last Saturday's meeting, including the feature race on .

McNeil was later found guilty of careless riding aboard Amadeus near the 1000m of the 1400m-race and given a 10 meeting penalty.

Two of those meetings were to be served concurrently with a nine-meeting ban from earlier that week.

The this week upheld McNeil's appeal against the Flemington suspension and dismissed the charge, with the panel not comfortably satisfied based on the video evidence that McNeil was guilty.

He is free to return after his Sandown suspension expires on Sunday night.

McNeil leads this season's Victorian premiership with 59 winners and is fourth in standings with 24.

Eight of his metropolitan wins have come in the first four meetings of 2020.

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