Linda Meech will sit out eight race meets until midnight May 27 after being handed a suspension at the weekend.
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Victoria’s leading jockey plead guilty to “failing to fully ride her mount out to the end of the race” in race six at Casterton on Sunday.
Meech rode six-year-old gelding Erector to an dead-heat for second, but stewards decided “that (the) actions of Meech may have affected the placings and cost Erector placing outright second”.
Meech told stewards “it was her intention to settle in a forward position however after failing to muster enough early speed, the gelding settled further back than anticipated.”
Meech served a 23-meet suspension earlier in the year for “improper riding”.
Despite two incidents keeping Meech off the track in the 2017-18 season, the Stawell jockey is still the premier jockey in the state.
Meech leads the Victorian jockey premiership standings with 102 wins from 553 starts. She is also the number one country jockey in Victoria and fourth most successful jockey in country races nationwide.
Meech is currently in a career purple patch, including four wins in one-day at Kilmore last Thursday and a triple-win at Mildura on Monday before her suspension kicked in.