I think the BHA will use the time delay as an excuse also, struthers will clearly make it difficult and expensive to pursue it.

cardiff I couldn't give two hoots if a jockey backs in a horse race out for a drink with the lads but when jockeys are backing other horses in races that they're riding in now thats a major problem.

If this CD exists and what they are claiming to have been said is true, then this is a MAJOR STORY and surely there are investigative journalists out there who want to check this out.

Does Andy Davies still work for Panarama!?

silver......to be fair he was telling me it was so certain to win even the jockey was backing it..this was back in 1993....though the horse won an handicap at 9/1 but  ended up 2nd though well beaten in a gr1..although it was beaten by a genuine champion

We will do Chelsea, the cd will emerge, I'm sure it will, then the BHA will have to act

If no action is being taken by the regulatory authority under whose jurisdiction this incident falls I'll be surprised if the BHA does anything at all other than to try and smother the story as best they can

Since the race was run three years back, RWITC stewards cannot take any retrospective penal action.

And not because we'd otherwise have to produce this CD and let lawyers hear it and allow the public to judge its authenticity. Oh no.

screaming, reading the transcript of the recording it certainly sounds authentic particularly the bit about David Allan its hard to believe somebodies imagination made this conversation up?

p1 of the RP today, does not print the article. They mention in the event of a successful libel action against the paper they would expect to receive substantial damages. How do the RP know the libel laws and likely damages in India??

I would not have thought either jockey would have the resources to fund a libel action in India, Mulrennan has had a lot of injuries,  and Dwyer spent money defending the earlier Indian action

They'd sue for libel in London, if they can get PJA funding.

this reporter has seen the transcripts

In other words, the Mumbai Mirror, at least when it published the article, did not have the CD and had not even heard the conversation.

Ramruna how can they sue in London? The English courts have no power to make the Indian Newspaper appear here and even if they awarded damages how could they enforce the award? India would give them the 2 fingers.

I doubt if the PJA have the funds to assist and even if they did I do not think they would spend it on a libel action in India seeing as Jockeys have to pay for representation at the BHA

you would have expected the jockeys to have publicly denied the allegations by now, be interesting to see if dwyer says anything at winsor today

not mentioned on atr or on the racing post website.....shamefull

This story is not going to away. If the indians send the CD to the BHA they must surely investigate? Would not be surprised if one of the red top's ran this story in the coming days. Obviously The Racing Post will be silent.

all aboard the gravy train chooo choooo

fair play to chris cook again not for the first time the only one not scared of his own shadow

Every jock must feel hacked right off over this ...

How many jockeys have a bet? I have no idea, but in their shoes I would find it pretty hard not too.

Graham Bradley got done for investing a tenner at Cartmel, but it is not something that crops up very often.

Any jockey betting at present , after the high profile witch-hunts of recent years has to be seriously daft in the head.

Martin Dwyer saga threatens to damage Anglo-Indian relations (Telegraph)(J McGrath)
Jockeys take legal advice over Mumbai allegations as BHA claims flaws in way original case was heard

Relations between the once-close racing communities of India and Britain have been strained to breaking point with two reports featuring the Derby-winning jockey Martin Dwyer published in the past week.
Dwyer and fellow jockey Paul Mulrennan are taking legal advice over an article that appeared in a Mumbai newspaper on Friday alleging their involvement in wrongdoing.
Both were named, and the allegations, which are potentially damaging to their reputations and careers are understood to have all been denied by them.
The second report was an official one, the findings of the British Horseracing Authority, which set out its reasons for not reciprocating the ban imposed on Dwyer by the Royal Western India Turf Club over his riding of the filly Ice Age in a race at Mahalaxmi in Mumbai last February.
In a detailed explanation of their reasons, the disciplinary panel, chaired by Timothy Charlton QC, found that Dwyer’s case had been prejudiced by the chairman of the RWITC panel Adi Narielwala, who had requested that the tribunal members examine still photographs taken of a recording of the race.

Narielwala reportedly expressed the view to his panel that this was “a certain case of malpractice”.
In its report, the BHA’s disciplinary panel, concluded: “Though this may seem at first glance to be a purely procedural matter, it is far from a mere technicality.
“Dwyer had a basic right to an unbiased evaluation of his case.
"Nobody knows what the result would have been if all six of the board of appeal members had approached it with open minds.”
To date neither Narielwala or the RWITC are reported to have commented on the findings of the BHA report
The timing of the publication of the Mumbai newspaper allegations – claimed to be from recordings on a CD supplied by an anonymous source – as well as the BHA findings, which stretch to 36 points, are certain to inflame an already volatile situation.

Paul Struthers, the chief executive of the Professional Jockeys’ Association, again called for all jockeys contemplating a professional engagement India to be cautious.
“It is not up to me to tell members what to do, but again I advise them to be very careful, and to be aware of who they are riding for.
“There are a lot of people [in India] with their noses out of joint over what has happened recently,” he said.