Jockey Dylan Kitts admitted preventing his mount Hillsin from running on his merits after the rider said he was threatened by a Premier League footballer’s father-in-law, a hearing was told.<\/p>\n
Kitts controversially finished third on the horse in a handicap hurdle at Worcester in July 2023.<\/p>\n
He, trainer Chris Honour and John Higgins – an associate of owner Alan Clegg, who has not been charged – are facing a disciplinary hearing.<\/p>\n
They are accused of breaching racing’s rules by committing, or conspiring to commit, a corrupt practice by agreeing to stop the horse from achieving his best possible placing.<\/p>\n
In outlining the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) case against them, Louis Weston KC said Kitts made the admission about his ride when initially interviewed in October 2023.<\/p>\n
Higgins, who is the father-in-law of Premier League footballer Ashley Barnes, was placed on the exclusion list by the BHA for his failure to cooperate in the investigation.<\/p>\n
Burnley striker Barnes was also placed on the list after he and Higgins failed to provide their phone records.<\/p>\n
Weston said: “Mr Kitts accepted the horse was given a stopping ride but went on to say he did so out of concern there was a threat by a gentleman called Mr Higgins, and confirmation that he should give a stopping ride and should not win the race for that was given by Chris Honour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jockey Dylan Kitts admitted preventing his mount Hillsin from running on his merits after the rider said he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-123790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}