{"id":299692,"date":"2023-11-17T18:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=299692"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:25:54","slug":"trainer-applebys-husband-is-banned-for-12-weeks-for-injuring-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/horse-racing\/trainer-applebys-husband-is-banned-for-12-weeks-for-injuring-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainer Appleby&apos;s husband is banned for 12 weeks for injuring horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Leading horse racing trainer Mick Appleby&#8217;s husband is banned from the sport &#8211; for just 12 weeks &#8211; after &#8216;losing his temper&#8217; and causing a horse &#8216;serious injury&#8217; with cuts to its mouth<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mick Appleby&#8217;s husband has been banned from horse racing for 12 weeks\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonny Clayton is said to have lost his temper and caused serious injury to a horse\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Horse racing trainer Mick Appleby&#8217;s husband has been banned from the sport for 12 weeks after reportedly &#8216;losing his temper&#8217; and causing a horse &#8216;serious injury&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Clayton was found to have contributed to Twilight Jazz having a &#8216;significant&#8217; jaw injury, with &#8216;full thickness laceration&#8217; to either side of her mouth following an incident last summer, as reported by the Racing Post.<\/p>\n<p>The horse was said to be &#8216;very difficult to handle&#8217; and often refused to move, the report said &#8211; adding that the bit &#8211; a metal object that goes in the horse&#8217;s mouth &#8211; was what caused the damage.<\/p>\n<p>However, it could not be determined whether its injury was caused by Clayton pulling on a rope repeatedly or the horse stepping on it after it knocked Clayton to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of Appleby&#8217;s staff witnessed the incident before coming forward &#8211; the report goes on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/17\/77936227-12761873-Jonny_Clayton_R_The_husband_of_trainer_Mick_Appleby_L_has_been_b-m-45_1700240431011.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/17\/17\/77938437-12761873-Clayton_was_said_to_have_injured_a_horse_after_losing_his_temper-a-57_1700240494129.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Jonny Clayton (R) The husband of trainer Mick Appleby (L)has been banned from racing for 12 weeks after &#8216;losing his temper&#8217; and injuring a horse\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clayton has had half of his ban suspended for 12 months after agreeing a plea deal with the British Horseracing Authority after he accepted fault for the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Davison, who was representing the BHA at a hearing looking into the incident, said: &#8216;There can be no escaping the fact this is a serious incident and that a significant injury was caused to the horse by virtue of Mr Clayton&#8217;s actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The fact is he lost his temper and he accepted that, and that his actions led to the injury.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of Clayton, who did not attend the hearing, George McGrath said: &#8216;When I have spoken to Mr Clayton he is extremely remorseful for his actions, but perhaps more tellingly he is very embarrassed. He is a professional horse person and prides himself on such. He&#8217;s extremely contrite for his actions on that morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The junior members of stable staff displayed great courage in coming forward because that&#8217;s not an easy thing to do. For me, it puts into context the amount of care and passion my members, and those working in racing, have for their horses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-12761873\/Leading-horse-racing-trainer-Mick-Applebys-husband-banned-sport-just-12-weeks-losing-temper-causing-horse-injury-cuts-mouth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading horse racing trainer Mick Appleby&#8217;s husband is banned from the sport &#8211; for just 12 weeks &#8211; after &#8216;losing <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trainer Appleby&amp;apos;s husband is banned for 12 weeks for injuring horse - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/horse-racing\/trainer-applebys-husband-is-banned-for-12-weeks-for-injuring-horse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trainer Appleby&amp;apos;s husband is banned for 12 weeks for injuring horse - Sportstons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading horse racing trainer Mick Appleby&#8217;s husband is banned from the sport &#8211; 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