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Berry Banned Until 2024 For Accepting Considerations

Sydney-based jockey Tommy Berry has been disqualified and is set to be out of the saddle for more than a year after being found guilty for “accepting a consideration” from a local punter in exchange for advice, Racing.com reported on Tuesday. The 31-year-old rider received the verdict and his punishment in a hearing before the NSW stewards on Tuesday and already has filed his intentions to appeal and apply for a stay of the suspension.

Berry was handed a total disqualification of 11 months and two weeks for “accepting or agreeing to accept considerations” from Gold Coast butcher and active punter Zaid Miller. Barry is believed to have accepted $15,000 through a deposit from Miller to a family member's bank account after he won more than $100,000 based on information he received from the rider. In Australia it is illegal for jockeys to accept considerations from anyone other than a horse's owner without permission from stewards.

Berry also received an additional four-week suspension for having a mobile phone in the jockeys' room, which is forbidden during race meetings.

Berry's disqualification was set to begin immediately and run through Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, before the extra four-week suspension starts, making him ineligible to ride until Monday, Jan. 29, 2024.

Australian media reported the considerations related to bets placed by Miller on horses Waterford (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) at Warwick Farm on Mar. 23, and Character (Aus) (Teofilo {Ire}) and Promise Of Success (GB) (Dansili {GB}) at Newcastle on Mar. 28. Berry rode both Waterford and Character.

Overall Berry faced six charges and was found guilty on all counts.

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Baaeed Crowned World’s Top-Rated Turf Horse For 2022

Flightline (Tapit) has been rated as Frankel's equal in the 2022 Longines World's Best Racehorse rankings on Tuesday with the GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner handed 140, while the brilliant Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) ended the year as the world's top-rated turf horse and the second-highest-rated horse in the world after achieving a mark of 135.

Baaeed, who lost his unbeaten record on his final start in the G1 Champion S. at Ascot, secured his rating of 135 when beating Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) in the G1 Juddmonte International. No other turf horse has achieved a rating as high since Frankel (GB).

Japanese star Equinox (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}) and Australian speedster Nature Strip (Aus) (Nicconi {Aus}), who lit up Royal Ascot when winning the G1 King's Stand S., finished in joint-third with a rating of 126 apiece.

G1 Coral-Eclipse S. winner Vadeni (Fr) (Churchill {Ire}) also fared well in the overall rankings by finishing alongside Life Is Good (Into Mischief) in a joint-fifth on 125.

Champion stayer Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) finished his season rated just one pound below them on 124, the same mark William Muir and Chris Grassick's battle-hardened globetrotter Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}) managed in a joint-eighth spot. Real World (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}, Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), Titleholder (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}), Olympiad (Speightstown), Golden Sixty (Aus) (Medaglia d'Oro) and 2021 Arc hero Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) also finished in joint-eighth.

Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who stole Torquator Tasso's G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe crown at the end of a spellbinding campaign that saw her notch three Group 1 wins in 2022 from as many attempts, earned a rating of 123 for that career highlight.

Overall, 288 horses, trained in 16 different countries, were rated 115 or higher. The full list and further information on the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings are available on the IFHA website.

QIPCO Champion S. Named World's Best Turf Race

The G1 QIPCO Champion S. has been ranked the world's highest-rated turf race and the best race in Europe in 2022 in the Longines World's Best Horserace Rankings.

With prize-money of £1.3 million, the Champion S. is also the richest 10-furlong race in Europe and was won last year by the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Bay Bridge (GB) (New Bay {GB}). Overall, the Champion S., rated 124.75, was second in the rankings behind the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, run last year at Keeneland and won by Flightline, who was on Tuesday announced as the Longines World's Best Racehorse. His rating of 140 was however achieved from his performance in the GI TVG Pacific Classic S.

The G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, which has previously been named as the world's top-rated race on five occasions in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021, was third in the 2022 rankings on 124.25.

European races fared well in the rankings overall, with 13 of the top 30 races being staged in Britain, France or Ireland. Britain had the highest number in the top 30 at nine, with the G1 Al Shaqab Lockinge S. and G1 Qatar Sussex S. being ranked fourth and fifth, respectively. America and Japan were equal with six apiece in the top 30, while France staged three, Australian and Dubai had two each, and Ireland and Hong Kong held one apiece. Ireland's top-rated race was the G1 Irish Champion S., which was joint-seventh overall with the Queen Anne S.

The list compiled by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) and Longines uses the annual race ratings, the calculations for which are based on the first four finishers in each race. Twelve countries feature among the top 100 races, though a five-way tie for the 100th spot on the means that the list for 2022 consists of 104 races.

Australia was responsible for 20 of the 104 races, followed by Great Britain (18), United States (18), Japan (12), France (10), Hong Kong, China (10), South Africa (5), Ireland (4), United Arab Emirates (4), Canada (1), Germany (1), and Saudi Arabia (1).

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Pair Of Group 1 Winners Nominated To Winter Derby

Group 1 winners Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}) and Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) are two of the 16 nominations for the Feb. 25 £100,000 G3 BetUK Winter Derby at Lingfield.

Last seen winning the G1 King George VI And Queen Elizabeth S., the William Muir and Chris Grassick-trained 6-year-old has been on the bench since that victory. He claimed the 2021 Listed Churchill S. over 10 furlongs at that track, defeating fellow Winter Derby entry Harrovian (GB) (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}).

John and Thady Gosden's Lord North was runner-up in the 2022 Winter Derby to Alenquer (Fr) (Adlerflug {Ger}). He then tied with Panthalassa (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) in the G1 Dubai Turf in March, before running off-the-board in a trio of Group 1s–the Tattersalls Gold Cup (fourth to Alenquer), the Prince Of Wales's S. (fifth to State Of Rest {Ire} {Starspangledbanner [Aus]}), and the Eclipse S. at Sandown in July, where he was fourth to Vadeni (Fr) (Churchill {Ire}).

Another signed on for the Winter Derby is Charlie Johnston's Living Legend (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), who won the G2 Jockey Club S. in 2022. He was most recently second in the G2 Princess Of Wales's S. in July.

Trainer Charlie Johnston said, “We have given Living Legend a BetUK Winter Derby entry and he has also been nominated for the Amir Trophy in Qatar, which takes place the week before.

“Plans are fluid at the moment. We would ultimately love to take him back to Newcastle for the Easter Classic, although with the way the programme book has fallen this year, it is going to make it difficult to qualify unless we win the Winter Derby.

“The Magnolia S. and Finals Day were three weeks apart last year, whereas this year it is only a six-day gap due to Easter falling earlier, which makes having three qualifying runs very difficult.

“There is plenty to think about and we will decide whether we go for the Winter Derby or take up the Qatar option nearer the time.”

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Hollie Doyle To See Specialist After Wolverhampton Fall

Classic-winning jockey Hollie Doyle is set to see a specialist after sustaining an arm injury in a spill at Wolverhampton on Monday.

Doyle was aboard the 4-7 favourite The Perfect Crown (Ire) (Hallowed Crown {Ire}) at Dunstall Park when her mount broke down on the final turn. The winner of the G1 Prix de Diane with Nashwa (GB) (Frankel {GB}) last season, the reinswoman will not take up her engagements at Kempton on Tuesday.

Doyle, who is the retained rider for Imad Al Sagar's Blue Diamond Stud, said, “Dr. Jerry Hill [chief medical adviser for the British Horseracing Authority] has got me in to see a specialist today to get my arm checked out, so I will know more after that.

“I can't bend my arm at the minute and I'm trying to get into Oaksey House today hopefully to see if a physio can sort it out.”

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