Cases confirm a memory of Skulduggerie who has colored horse races

A Little Over Two Years After One of the Most Bizarre and Downright Suspicious Riding Performances On A British Racecourse in recent Decades, The British Horseracing Authority’s Independent Disciplinary Panel Confirmed Last Hills’s Delibers Hills’s delgan Kittss’s delibers’s delibers’s delibers’s delibers’s delibers’s delibers’s delibers’s dylan kittels’s delibers’s dylan kittels’s delibers. Hurdle at Worcester on July 5, 2023, in A Conspiracy with John Higgins, An Associate of Hillsin’s Owner, to Profit from “Lay” Bets on the Ruin.

A few days earlier, meanwhile, a 42-year-old man from Bury was arrested by the police of Greater Manchester, after an investigation by the Gambling Commission “in connection with accusations of the establishment of horse races”.

The fact that the two stories appeared within the room of five days is completely coincidental, and although the Gambling Commission has the power to make prosecution for cheating gambling, a violation with a maximum prison sentence of two years, the arrested person is not yet loaded.

But as the British horse -racing authority emphasized after the conclusion of the Hillsin case, “Central to the success of British racing is the confidence among those who participate, bet and look at our sport that what they see on the circuit see themselves on the circuit, is clean and honest … [and] Those who look British racing should never ask if a horse is run on his merits. “

So where should the reliability level of the gambling audience be now? Is there even more reason to wonder if a horse is on its merits than this time last month or last year?

The intimate association between racing and bet has inevitably mean that cheating and racing fixes have been observed and actual threats for the integrity of the sport from the earliest days. Doping and Gavourite-Nobbling, often by order of bookmakes, were widespread in the forming decades of Racing, and as early as 1990, Dermot “Needleman” Browne’s 23-horse Doping Spree was a bruising attack on Racing’s reputation.

The gambling market is not always the motivation for cheating, such as the Mahmood Al-Zarooni Doping scandal in Godolphin’s Moulton Paddocks proved stable in Newmarket in 2013. But everyone knows that certainty that a horse, and a depicted horse in particular, will not win, will forever have a value for criminals and cheats.

As a result, the BHA will always be confronted with the classic paradox of how to prove a negative when it states the gambling audience that British racing is clean and honest. And although the extensive dope test regime has only appeared a small handful of cases of deliberate doping, either to improve or hinder performance, since the Zarooni case will never be an easy test for conspiracy between people such as the hills cases.

What the Hillsin affair does show, however, is that conspiracy to stop a horse is one thing, but getting away with it is another.

There was a lot of attention in the aftermath of last week’s finding against Kitts and Higgins about some of the more lurid details that emerged during the hearing. The fact that the Burnley striker, Ashley Barnes, is the son-in-law of Higgins, was warned by the BHA after refusing to help with the research, was emphasized on a large scale. That also applies to Kitts’ decision to have “Hillsin” tattooed on his back while he was on vacation a few weeks later.

But although it was an age to get the business to a hearing, it is an important point to remember that everything about the Hillsin race in Worcester Race had the strong scent of a solution around it, from the pre-race drift of the gambling in the gambling of 2-1 favorite overnight spent night to 11-1 at the off-ray to the Relays, totally, to be the goses, totally kittros’s goses, totally kitties, totally kitties, totally kitties, totally kitties, totally kittts, kittt, kittrets, kittrets, kittrets, kittrets, totally kittrets, Shaking, even shaking in a dense third of the run to the line.

The fact that Kitts, who had recently returned from a 14-day ban due to lack of efforts in a race in May, was forbidden to drive two days later and the Race pipes by the BHA, also suggested that this was not only a case of a young conditional ride that a hold-up ride was terribly wrong.

And so it proved in the end. Higgins told Kitts to stop the horse and the jockey agreed to do this in this, but although he achieved that primary goal, the way he did that could hardly have been obvious.

The penalties in the Hillsin case still have to be decided, but Kitts’ career was effective as soon as he put third place in third place, while Higgins, who refused to deal with the disciplinary process, is very unlikely to be allowed to be back on a racecourse.

We can only wait and see what comes from the research of the gambling committee into possible racingfixing. The Hillsin case should, however, serve as a lasting memory of each rider with the same choice as Kitts that it could be the last decision they make as a jockey.