So the conspiracy we allege against all of the persons charged before the inquiry is that they engaged or joined in a conspiracy to commit a fraudulent or corrupt practice against the rules of racing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAlso named as conspirators are Luke Olley, Luke Howells, Eugene Maloney, Andrew Perring, and Sean McBride, all of whom are alleged to have bet on the crooked races.<\/p>\n
The only one of these present at the hearing this week was McBride, the son of racehorse trainer Charlie McBride. He denies the allegations.<\/p>\n
Throwing the Race?<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe panel heard that in one of the suspicious races — at Southwell in March 2019 — Brock, riding Samovar, was noticeably \u2013 deliberately, according to Weston \u2013 slow out of the stalls. The rider then failed to correct his mount when it veered to the left.<\/p>\n
Samovar finished second in the race at 2\/1, 10 lengths behind Tricky Dicky, a horse backed by Perring, Maloney, Howells, and McBride.<\/p>\n
McBride told the hearing that he and the others were prolific gamblers who were accustomed to betting large sums on individual races.<\/strong><\/p>\nOf Brock’s absence, Weston said: “I would invite you to draw some adverse inferences in relation to Mr. Brock. “He has had every opportunity to contest what I say about his rides and he is choosing not to.<\/p>\n
“I would invite you \u2026 to draw the inference he has no good reason and is using the excuse of publicity as a shield to avoid questioning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hearing continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former jockey at the heart of an alleged betting conspiracy that’s rocked British horse racing skipped an independent corruption inquiry investigating the allegations this week. Danny Brock declined to take part in the British Horseracing Authority\u2019s (BHA) public hearing into his alleged wrongdoing. He claimed that appearing could lead to threats against him and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":248400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14577,1074],"tags":[84147,81900],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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