Jockey's corruption ban overturned on appeal

The Miami Herald Wednesday 11th April, 2012

LONDON -- A British jockey's two-year ban from horse racing has been overturned after she was cleared of two corruption charges following an appeal.Kirsty Milczarek was one of four jockeys to be convicted in December of race-fixing after the British Horseracing Authority's biggest corruption inquiry. Two owners were also found guilty.An appeal board says the BHA's disciplinary panel's "finding that Milczarek was a party to the conspiracy cannot ...

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