GRAND National-winning jockey Jason Maguire is to miss the Cheltenham Festival for the second year in a row.

Birdlip-based Maguire this week lost an appeal against a 14-day non-triers' ban picked up at Ludlow.

Twelve months ago he was sidelined at the big meeting when he was seriously injured – he had to have part of his spleen removed – in a race fall at Stratford on the Monday of Cheltenham week.

At Ludlow, Maguire was found guilty of 'schooling/conditioning a horse on the racecourse', in contravention to the rules of racing, when finishing seventh, beaten 24 lengths, on Born To Succeed in the Onny Maiden Hurdle.

The jockey is suspended from March 4-17.

Born To Succeed is trained in Bourton-on-the-Water by Ben Pauling whose original £3,000 fine also remains and the horse is banned from running for 40 days.

Maguire won the 2011 Grand National on Ballabriggs.