Jack Garritty had lodged an appeal against his suspension at Leicester but a separate BHA review concluded his riding did not meet the threshold for a breach of the rules

A jockey’s 10-day non-trier ban has been quashed amid concern over the stewards’ use of sectional timing.

Jack Garritty, 30, was suspended on Monday after officials at Leicester ruled he had not taken all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing on the Lisa Williamson-trainer Red Derek. The 11-2 chance had stayed on from an unpromising position at the rear of the field to finish third, nine lengths behind the winner.

Garritty had told a stewards inquiry that he was unable to achieve a prominent position because his mount had been slowly away but decided not to “fire up’ the gelding and instead hold him up off a strong early pace.

He acknowledged that although it looked like he had given his horse too much to do, Red Derek would not have finished as well had he asked him for his effort earlier.

The stewards issued a suspension, citing sectional timing data which showed Red Derek had produced the fastest splits in each of the last three furlongs.

Garritty lodged an appeal but on Thursday he learned it would not go ahead following an intervention from the BHA.

The regulator said that after further review of the race it had exercised its powers to quash the decision as “it has been determined that the threshold for a breach of the rules has not been met.”

The Professional Jockeys Association welcomed the decision but said it was concerned that sectional timing had been used without disclosing the data to Garritty before the inquiry.

“The local stewards then palpably failed to contextualise the data meaning that they comprehensively misunderstood and misrepresented it when they concluded in their finding,” a statement said.

“On proper analysis, the sectional timing data showed that the race had been run at too fast a pace for the conditions, and that - in part as a resutt of missing the break, in part because Jack had to restrain his mount, who was keen, off heels, and in part because of his own judgement - Red Derek was given the closest to optimal ride in the race.”

Expert analysis of the sectional timing data, which was to be used in Garritty’ s defence at appeal, would have supported Garritty’s explanation, it said.