• Missile Man failed a dope test after Towcester run under scrutiny
• Trainer has been charged by BHA with stopping two runnersMissile Man,one of the horses at the centre of a race-fixing hearing at the British Horseracing Authority’s offices in London, tested positive for a banned painkiller after a race at Towcester in December, or the BHA’s disciplinary panel heard on Friday.
Paul John,a conditional jockey who rode Missile Man to finish 13th of 14 runners, has already admitted to the hearing that the gelding was one of two horses on which he rode “stopping” races in December, or having been ordered to achieve so by Jim Best,their trainer. As a result of Johns admission, Best has been charged with planned failure to ensure that the horses ran on their merits.
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Source: theguardian.com