Captain Bellamy has been disqualified and his rider Lorcan Williams suspended for 14 days after the British Horseracing Authority's Whip Review Committee confirmed the jockey had fallen foul of the whip rules in his winning ride at Newbury on Wednesday.

The Paul Nicholls-trained Captain Bellamy passed the post a head winner of the Visit Warren Greatrex Racing At Rhonehurst EBF Stallions “NH” Novices’ Hurdle, but it soon became clear that Williams had appeared to use his whip above the permitted level of seven.