Amant Gris owner not to contest awarding of Grand Pardubice win to Váňa’s Tiumen

The owner of the runner-up in Sunday’s Grand Pardubice steeplechase says he will not contest the awarding of first place to Tiumen ridden by Josef Váňa. The owner of Amant Gris, Josef Hájek, said he would not lodge an appeal with the Czech Jockey Club and now wanted to put the matter behind him. Stewards accepted the claim of Amant Gris’s jockey Marek Stromský that Váňa had pressed him into a fence in the final stretch of the race. However, they said the incident had not affected the result of the race, which ended in a photo finish, and only imposed a small fine. It was the seventh win in the Grand Pardubice for veteran jockey Josef Váňa, who turns 58 next week.