Oisín Murphy admits to Newmarket pub ‘fracas’ before failing breath test
Jockey Oisín Murphy after winning the Gamble Responsibly With Casumo Handicap on Whitehaven during the Casumo Flat Finale at Haydock Park Racecourse yesterday. Picture: Nigel French/PA
Oisín Murphy, who is long odds-on to be crowned champion jockey for the third season in a row at Ascot on Saturday, has admitted to being involved in a “fracas” in a pub in Newmarket last week, a few hours before he was stood down from riding at the town’s racecourse after failing a pre-racing breath test for alcohol.
News of the incident, on the evening of October 7, emerged in the Daily Mail on Friday evening and is the latest of several stories to appear in recent months which seem to cast a poor light on the champion jockey’s professionalism away from the track.
