Tierney warned off for eight years over ringer

ROBERT Tierney has been warned off until February 2016 after being found guilty in an investigation into a point-to-point ringer in Britain.

Tierney is already serving a six-year ban for a similar offence and following his attempt to run Max’N Limbo in place of an unregistered hunter at Staintondale point-to-point in April 2006, he has been warned off for a further five years.

However, the British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel have decided to allow three years of the suspension to run concurrently with a further two-year ban imposed.