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In a meeting held on Monday evening at the Mahalaxmi racecourse, the Board of Appeal (BoA) of the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) granted partial relief to jockey P S Chouhan who was slapped a one-year suspension by the stewards of the race club three weeks ago for "not allowing a horse to run on merit". The suspension has now been split into two parts of six months each--the first six-month term will start from Saturday, April 22, while the remaining hallf would be treated as a suspended sentence, to be invoked only if the jockey is found guilty of a similar offence in the next three years.