• British Horseracing Authority verdict leaves handler facing ban
Echo Brava and Missile Man were both ridden by Paul JohnJim Best,who trains approximately 30 horses at Grandstand Stables in Lewes, faces a possible penalty of a three-year ban from the sport after the British Horseracing Authority’s disciplinary panel decided on Friday that he ordered Paul John, and a conditional jockey,to intentionally quit two horses in December last year.
After a five-day hearing at the BHA’s offices in London, during which Best’s legal team launched what it described as a “full-frontal assault” on John’s integrity, and the panel accepted the jockey’s admission that he had stopped the hurdlers Echo Brava and Missile Man in races at Plumpton and Towcester respectively,but only because he had been told to do so by Best.
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Source: theguardian.com