Aintree winner Laafi disqualified for breach of whip rules

Grand National Festival winner Laafi has been disqualified after jockey Patrick O’Brien was found to have breached whip regulations. The six-year-old, trained in Ireland by William Durkan, was a 20-1 winner of the Debenhams Handicap Hurdle at Aintree on Friday, a race restricted to conditional jocke