Bradley goes before Appeal Board today
Two days have been set aside for the hearing the second being this day week - after the former top jump jockey and now leading bloodstock agent was warned off and fined £2,500 and £400 when he was found to be in breach of a series of the Rules of Racing
Bradley denies selling information to alleged drugs dealer Brian Brendan Wright and believes he has been made 'a scapegoat' because of the recent bad publicity racing has received and that the penalty handed to him is 'massively excessive'.
The disciplinary panel found Bradley in breach of the following Rules of Racing:
Rule 204(iv) by giving or offering to give on various dates during the term of his licence information concerning horses entered in races under the Rules of Racing in return for monetary consideration, other than the receipt of a reasonable fee for giving an interview to the Press or other legitimate news gathering organisation for the purposes of general publication; and/or
Rule 62(ii)(c) by receiving presents in connection with a race on various occasions during the term of his licence from persons other than the owner of the horse ridden by him in that race;
Rule 220(vii)(b) by providing false information to the licensing committee of the Jockey Club on 21 June 1999, namely statements to the effect that he had never been asked by Brian Brendan Wright whether a particular horse would win or not win, and had never done anything wrong with Brian Brendan Wright; and
Rule 220(viii) by means of the statements mentioned above, endeavouring by an overt act to mislead the members of the licensing committee;
Rule 220 (iii) by bringing racing into disrepute due to the account given on pp188-9 of his autobiography The Wayward Lad about the 1987 Cheltenham Gold Cup, in which he had described an attempt by him to have the race abandoned for the benefit of Brian Brendan Wright, which Bradley admitted was wholly untrue.
Rule 140 by entering the weighing room without special leave of the stewards at Cheltenham on November 16 2001 and at Newbury on December 1 2001.
