Oh dear Elizabeth

3 Months

mistook the winning post (nap)

Lost her balance (nb)

That was grim to watch.
Absolutely terrible.

Gale hit by a headwind
long shot

one job

Made a mistake...a BIG ONE ( how do they not realise the jam stick is coloured red )... still not as bad as easing one knowingly before the line and trying to win cleverly  which happens in the majority of cases like this.

But even if she thought the half furlong pole was the winning line, she STILL dropped her hands before then which is a mortal sin as far as the rules go. The rule is something along the lines of driving the horse all the way to the finishing line. Dropping hands before the finishing line used to be a very common occurrence 20 years ago, but since in-running betting became a thing they tightened that rule up.

She made a genuine mistake, maybe time to do away with the half-furlong pole.

But Doyle dropped his hands and got 0 days.
Shepherd dropped his hands and ended up with 0 days.

I hope they don't make an example of her but they almost certainly will, for a genuine mistake.

if she thinks on her feet, 'The horse made a noise, call me a liar'

Biggest crime is standing up in the saddle and dropping her hands without looking over her shoulder.
She gaves it 6 cracks of the shelailigh from two out.
Decent enough ride until the brain fart.

Slippy ffs she is a 7lb claimer learning her trade, in the heat of a close finish she made a mistake. no one died ffs.

Second in the last as well she looks like a good rider.

James Doyle could not even smooth talk his way out of that one.

perv

Conditional jockey Elizabeth Gale has been banned for 28 days after appearing to mistake the half-furlong pole for the winning line in the 2m7f handicap hurdle.

The 7lb claimer, who was riding Catuaba for her boss Charlie Longsdon, stood up in her irons at the half-furlong pole when her mount held a length lead over The Bold Thady.

Dylan Johnston kept in the drive position on The Bold Thady, who headed Catuaba in the final strides as Gale eased up on the 15-2 shot.

Gale resumed riding once spotting the eventual 25-1 winner on her outside, but it was too late as Catuaba was beaten a head.

Gale was accompanied by multiple Grade 1-winning rider Gavin Sheehan in a stewards’ inquiry, where the 22-year-old was banned for 28 days for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing on a horse who would have finished first.

Longsdon, who had been preparing Gale’s next mount, Ikigai Star, for the following race during the inquiry, told Sky Sports Racing: “The worst thing is she’s given him the best ride I’ve seen that horse [been given]. He’s not a straightforward horse. He’s not always the most genuine.

“She’s stolen the race turning in and then that happens. I feel gutted for her. It’s a genuine mistake, but she’s got to take her punishment. Some people say it’s happened a few times here before, and maybe we should take the half-furlong pole away, but there’s no excuses.”

Gale was having her 111th ride under rules, with her sole winner for Longsdon having been when helping Catuaba justify 5-2 favouritism at Stratford in July.

Her nine domestic winners include success in a £35,000 veterans’ handicap chase aboard Celebre D'Allen for Philip Hobbs and Johnson White last October.

Ikigai Star was second under Gale in the 2m handicap hurdle for conditional riders after the stewards’ inquiry.

Gale becomes the second rider to receive a 28-day ban for failing to ride out to the line recently, after Alec Voikhansky was given the same punishment at Bath last month.

Callum Shepherd also had an 18-day ban for the same offence at Kempton overturned on appeal last Tuesday.

to be fair wouldn't have much confidence in a jock giving it the big drop him right on the line blah,blah pre race but in a race cant tell/estimate the finishing line within half a furlong after the last and even more as she was already beginning to ease off before the half furlong marker

take away the 1/2 furlong pole ?

1/2 furlong poles probably been there since the track opened in 1718.  how many have confused it for the winning line in the past 306 years ??