Stoute has been champion trainer eight times

Stoute had been fined and jockey Stephen Davies banned for 32 days under the non-triers' rule when Florimund finished 11th at Windsor on 24 July.

Florimund was banned from running for 40 days after the Windsor maiden.

The colt started slowly, made headway down the straight only for Davies to ease up in the final furlong.

Stoute appeared before the disciplinary panel of the Horseracing Regulatory Authority on Friday to argue his case as he had not been present at the original hearing.

The eight-time champion trainer told the hearing: "I was very dissatisfied with the ride and had I been at Windsor I would have told the stewards that.

"I wanted to him to be in the first four or five going into the bend and when he broke slowly he should have been more aggressive and driven the horse up.

"It was an incompetent ride but I don't think he deliberately disobeyed instructions."

Davies, who did not appeal, said he had eased up in the final stages because he felt tired but the three-man panel described this excuse as "ludicrous".

They concluded: "He was quite deliberately failing to ask for any effort from a horse than plainly had the ability to improve his position."

Stoute's pre-race instruction to the jockey was deemed "completely inadequate" and the ride given by Davies "a disgrace".

Having heard all the evidence, the panel upeheld the raceday stewards' original verdict that Stoute was in breach of Rule 155 (ii).

They also raised the fine by �2,000, saying "this was a particularly poor case of a non-trier."