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- Updated: November 1, 2016
Anthony Knott, former owner of Cheltenham Festival winner Hunt Ball, is free to resume his interests in racing after the British Horseracing Authority announced he will not serve the rest of a three-year penalty handed out by the disciplinary panel in 2014 for passing on inside information.
Knott was disqualified from the sport by a BHA disciplinary panel chaired by solicitor Matthew Lohn.
The Somerset farmer was found guilty of allegedly supplying information to former owner Anthony Callow, who won more than £6,000 laying Knott’s Theroadtogorey to lose in a race at Uttoxeter in 2012. Both Knott and Callow denied the charges.
The pair had been banned from December 19, 2014 until December 18, 2017. That no longer applies to either Knott or Cowell and records of the offence have been removed.
Their case was one of seven highlighted as being potentially unsound due to the involvement of Lohn, whom it emerged was …
