TOM QUEALLY, who has come in for some stick for his premature move on Frankel in the St James's Palace Stakes, has defended himself by insisting he was riding to instructions.
Queally has ridden the Sir Henry Cecil-trained superstar to victory on all seven starts, but his sizeable winning distance in the Qipco 2,000 Guineas was reduced to a fast-diminishing three quarters of a length at Royal Ascot.
The jockey, underfire for his mid-race tactical move to rush Frankel past pacemaker Rerouted, said: "They fail to realise I was riding to instructions."
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