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JIM BEST GUILTY VERDICT QUASHED AND REHEARING ANNOUNCED BY APPEAL BOARD
- Updated: May 24, 2016
A rehearing has been ordered into non-trier charges brought by the British Horseracing Authority against trainer Jim Best.
Best was found guilty earlier this year of instructing jockey Paul John to ride two horses – Echo Brava and Missile Man – not on their merits, and of “conduct prejudicial to horseracing in Great Britain”.
The Lewes-based handler was given a four-year disqualification from the sport, but strongly maintained his innocence, almost immediately launching an appeal, and was granted a stay of that penalty pending its outcome.
It emerged in subsequent media reports the chairman of the disciplinary panel at the original hearing, solicitor Matthew Lohn, was engaged by the BHA on …
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