Meade confirms appeal against Galway Hurdle verdict
Meade's eight-year-old was first past the post, getting the better of the Gordon Elliott-trained Ndaawi by a head, only for the stewards to reverse the placings, ruling interference between the pair had affected the result.
Speaking at Sligo on Wednesday, Meade said: "We put an appeal in yesterday and it's up on Tuesday, so we'll see what happens.
"Despite what everyone seems to think, every video I look at seems to suggest that Jack (Kennedy, on Ndaawi) got every chance to win the race and didn't go through with it as much as anything else.
"He was leaning on my lad as much as my lad was leaning on him."
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