AGGRO between riders rarely tends to be escalated to official channels, and that is part of what makes Wednesday’s controversy between Declan Queally and Nico de Boinville all the more unusual.

Before any allegation of racist abuse towards Queally was made public, the ITV Racing team seemed largely disappointed that de Boinville acted in the way he did at the tapes, throwing his weight around in an animated fashion. Every rider is entitled to the same ground on the track, regardless of their status, achievements or frustrations.

One subplot to the case was comments made by Nicky Henderson’s stable jockey in a Racing Post special feature on starting procedures at Cheltenham last month.

“We’re racing all the time and we’re trying to protect the sport,” de Boinville said.

“The problem is an amalgamation of some of the Irish lads coming in and the amateurs who – and there is no other way of putting it – just don’t care.”

If that theory had already been towards the forefront of his mind, and then an Irish amateur in Queally was vying for a forward position in a Grade 1 to kick off the card, perhaps it wouldn’t have taken much to motivate de Boinville to boil over - even if it doesn’t excuse any abuse, especially anything racial.

We don’t know exactly what was said to Queally in terms of specifically racist remarks, other than the general abuse of reportedly being called a “f***ing pr**k”. It must be said that de Boinville (speaking to BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra on Thursday) denies allegations of racism.

“The stewards are gathering all the evidence they can from all the video footage,” he said.

“From my point of view, I deny all the allegations against me. I can categorically say there wasn’t any racial slurs or anything like that. Let’s let it play out.”

A couple of hours later, there was an end to the situation for now when the pair shook hands live on ITV Racing. Queally said: “It’s all sorted, just a heat of the moment battle. All is forgiven and best of luck to Nico in the future.”

De Boinville added: “I appreciate Declan and wish him all the best. A big thanks to Davy Russell for sorting this all out.”

Another factor that was curious to follow was how slow the British Horseracing Authorities were to post any notice of the incident on their live-rolling stewards’ reports website on Wednesday. It also seems that it took Queally too long to lodge a complaint for the matter to be considered further.

The stewards, having heard the initial evidence from Queally and Nico de Boinville, “adjourned the matter to obtain further evidence”. One would imagine the tapes would be pretty self-explanatory in this case. The BHA have offered no further comment on the incident since.

Keeping their counsel is at odds with how we’ve seen them act at times when it comes to commenting on some Irish affairs outside of their jurisdiction in recent years. Whatever way you look at it, there were no winners in this case - and a cracking run from I’ll Sort That probably got slightly overlooked in the process. He remains a high-class prospect for the yard.