Schofield Has Four Days Shaved Off Ban

Chad Schofield is free to ride Group One winner Go Indy Go in her spring return after having four days shaved off a one-month ban on appeal.

The Champagne Stakes-winning filly is scheduled to resume in the Cap D'Antibes Stakes at Flemington on September 13 with the meeting headlined by the Group One Makybe Diva Stakes.

Schofield appealed the severity of the suspension for careless riding handed down by Racing Victoria stewards at Caulfield last Saturday week.

The Cox Plate-winning jockey was outed after being found guilty on two separate counts in the same race, with stewards judging his ride between the 900m and 700m in the high range of carelessness.

The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary (RAD) Board reduced his ban after a hearing in Melbourne on Monday.

Schofield withdrew his appeal over the second incident near the winning post and will serve that 14 meeting suspension concurrently with the more serious ban.

The suspension has already cost Schofield a win on Bring Me The Maid in Saturday's Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick.

He also misses out on Sweet Idea in Saturday's Group One Memsie Stakes at Caulfield with Craig Newitt to ride the Gai Waterhouse-trained mare in the season's first Group One race.

On the day of the original inquiry, Schofield claimed he was being victimised but chief steward Terry Bailey told the RAD Board the jockey had been suspended 19 times since August 2012, a record he described as the worst since he took charge.

Schofield has been working with former jockey Brent Thomson for the past six months in an effort to address the problem.