Noel Callow hit with further five-month ban

Group 1-winning jockey Noel Callow has been handed a further five-month disqualification following a new charge laid by Queensland racing stewards.

The latest penalty relates to a separate video incident involving alleged racist comments, which the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission assessed on Monday.

Callow is now banned from riding until August 22 after stewards ruled the additional sanction should partly run alongside an existing suspension.

He was already serving a 10-month disqualification imposed for videos recorded in 2024 that contained inappropriate and unacceptable language.

Stewards said the penalty was necessary to deter such behaviour and to reinforce that discriminatory behaviour would not be tolerated within the racing industry.

The original six-month ban was reduced to five months in recognition of Callow’s guilty plea.