'I don't even take pain killers': Kerry jockey Oisín Murphy vows to prove innocence from drug charge

I don't come into contact with drugs... I don't even take pain killers - I take an inhaler, and that's about it.
'I don't even take pain killers': Kerry jockey Oisín Murphy vows to prove innocence from drug charge

Jockey Oisin Murphy after winning The Shadwell Joel Stakes at Newmarket 

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has vowed to do "everything that I can" to prove his innocence after testing positive for metabolites of cocaine at a meeting in France earlier in the year.

The Kerry 25-year-old was tested by France Galop at Chantilly on July 19, where he partnered The Lir Jet to finish second in the Group Two Prix Robert Papin.

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