Racing: Suspended after stoush

Group One-winning jockey Nikita Beriman was suspended for two months on a charge of misconduct after being involved in a fight with another female rider at an Echuca race meeting last month.

Beriman pleaded guilty before the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board to the charge which related to her pushing and then punching apprentice Stacey Rawiller three times in the female jockeys' room on August 24. Rawiller had facial bruising and a fat lip after the altercation which took place after the running of the Moama Bowling 0-62 Handicap in which both she and Beriman rode.

Rawiller, the younger sister of top jockeys Nash and Brad, was examined by a doctor and ruled unfit to fulfil her remaining engagements on the day.

Beriman reached the pinnacle of her career when she won the 2007 Group One Emirates Stakes on longshot Tears I Cry which she had been engaged to ride in the Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley today.

- AAP