The flap had broken away from Dettori’s whip at some stage and, inquiring into his use of it, the stewards decided that he had used it with ‘excessive frequency without allowing his horse time to respond’.

He will be sidelined on May 15-18 inclusive and so misses the Wednesday and Thursday of York, while he would have likely to have been at Newbury’s Juddmonte Lockinge meeting on the following two days.

On Sunday he won the Sagitta 1000 Guineas on Saeed bin Suroor’s Kazzia at Newmarket, and he said philosophically: ‘‘It is unfortunate that I will miss some of York, but I will not be appealing - some days you are lucky, some days you are not.’’

And when asked if the whip breaking cost him the race he added: ‘‘I don’t know if it made any difference to the result really, but it did not feel comfortable when I was using it.’’

Another former champion Pat Eddery will miss the whole of York after being suspended for five days for a whip offence on Snowfire, runner-up to Kazzia, and stewards’ secretary Patrick Hibbert-Foy explained: ‘‘Unfortunately Frankie used his whip too much, especially in the final furlong when he was in with a chance of winning.

‘‘Some strokes were given without allowing the colt time to respond. It was a marginally less serious breach of the rules than Pat Eddery’s at Newmarket.’’

And Richard Hughes will also miss some of the York meeting as he received a one-day ban (May 16) for careless riding on the unplaced top-weight Leadership at Kempton.