HORSE RACING
Jockey Lyle Hewitson hit by ban in Singapore
Champion jockey Lyle Hewitson will have mixed feelings about his first visit to Singapore. He captained the SA side to a reasonable showing in the PGI Challenge but was hit with a four-day ban by the Kranji stewards for careless riding.Hewitson got in hot water when riding in a race at Kranji on Sunday and his ban will run from October 3 to 7. Luckily, it does not affect the R750,000 World Sports Betting Heritage Handicap, which has been rescheduled for October 13.The SA team, which included Muzi Yeni and Aldo Domeyer, finished in third place in the Challenge with 102 points. The victors were Australia with 119 points, shading the UK side, which amassed 117 points.Yeni ran second in the first of the Challenge races, but it was Cape-based Domeyer who fared the best of the SA jockeys as he steered his mount, Safeer, to victory, beating the former Singapore favourite, Joao Moreira. This win assured Domeyer of the Victor Ludorum prize for the most successful jockey at the meeting and hi...
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