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Judge orders BHA to re-hear Dean McKeown ‘insider information’ case

• Banned jockey wins pyrrhic victory but faces heavy costs • British Horseracing Board to reconvene disciplinary panel Dean McKeown has scored a narrow and pyrrhic victory in his long-running legal action against the sport’s ruling body. The jockey, banned for four years after being found guilty of corruption offences by the British Horseracing Authority in October 2008, successfully persuaded the high court that his case had been poorly handled in one respect, but he will still have to bear most of the costs of the action. Mr Justice Stadlen found that the BHA’s appeal board acted unreasonably and unlawfully in dismissing McKeown’s appeal in December 2008, after it became clear that the conclusions of the earlier disciplinary panel had been partially based on a factual error. Mark Warby QC, for the BHA, assured the court that the panel would be reconvened within 28 days to begin reconsidering the matter

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Rick Parry review recommends lengthy jail sentences for sports cheats

Panel recommends jail sentences for sportsmen guilty of match-fixing or gambling-related corruption.

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Appeal against Dar Re Mi’s demotion in the Prix Vermeille is rejected

• Dar Re Mi’s demotion to fifth at Longchamp is upheld • Panel finds that interference cost Soberania fourth place The appeal against the decision to demote John Gosden’s Dar Re Mi from first to fifth place in the Prix Vermeille has been rejected. Following a two-hour appeal yesterday Gosden, the jockey Jimmy Fortune and Dar Re Mi’s owners, Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber, left the offices at France-Galop headquarters in a positive frame of mind and with hope the decision would be overturned. However, France-Galop released the findings of their decision this evening and the placings remained unaltered

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