{"id":254285,"date":"2025-07-10T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254285\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:39:13","slug":"oisin-murphy-faces-incredibly-strict-conditions-on-licence-after-drink-driving-case-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254285\/","title":{"rendered":"Oisin Murphy faces \u2018incredibly strict\u2019 conditions on licence after drink-driving case | Horse racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brant Dunshea, the acting chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority<\/a>, revealed on Thursday that the regulator is going to apply \u201cincredibly strict\u201d conditions to Oisin Murphy\u2019s riding licence following the champion jockey\u2019s conviction on a drink-driving charge at Reading magistrates\u2019 court last week.<\/p>\n

Murphy was fined \u00a370,000, one of the highest penalties ever imposed for drink-driving in the UK, and banned for 20 months following an incident near his home in Berkshire in late April when a car that Murphy was driving collided with a tree. The jockey was nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol in his breath when tested by police around seven hours after the crash.<\/p>\n

Murphy was banned from riding for 14 months from December 2021 after admitting breaches of Covid-19 protocols, failing two pre-racing breath tests for alcohol and misleading BHA officials. He returned to action in February 2023 with additional conditions on his licence. He was back in action at Windsor less than 48 hours after the crash in April, and was 20 winners clear of his nearest rival in the race for the 2025 Flat jockeys\u2019 championship before the start of the July Festival here on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Dunshea, who said the BHA are in the \u201cfinal stages\u201d of finalising the conditions, told ITV Racing that they will be \u201cincredibly strict\u201d, and \u201cwill include enhanced testing, both on the racecourse and away from the racecourse\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe\u2019re working to come up with a set of conditions that not only ensures we\u2019re protecting the integrity and reputation of British racing and the safety of our horses and people, but also that we\u2019re doing it in a way that ensures that Oisin gets the support and help that he might need to deal with his issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy retains a big lead in the title race despite having failed to ride a winner from 21 rides since his court hearing last week. He drew a blank from six booked rides at Newmarket on Thursday and has six more on Friday\u2019s card, including Running Lion in the Group One Falmouth Stakes.<\/p>\n

The shape of the feature race here on Thursday changed significantly less than 30 minutes before the scheduled off-time when Ghostwriter, the strong favourite for the Group Two Princess Of Wales\u2019s Stakes, was declared a non-runner after what Clive Cox, his trainer, described as a \u201cfreak incident\u201d in the pre-parade ring. \u201cI was putting the saddle on when he reared over backwards and sat down,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

William Buick rides his 2000th winner on El Cordobes in the Princess Of Wales\u2019s Stakes at Newmarket. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The four-year-old, who was bought for \u00a32m to race for football agent Kia Joorabchian\u2019s Amo Racing operation at a sale in London in June, was taken to Newmarket\u2019s Equine Hospital for examination.<\/p>\n

In his absence, William Buick steered El Cordobes to victory in the Group Two Princess of Wales\u2019s Stakes, the 2,000th victory of his career in Britain. Buick is now one of just seven current jockeys to have reached the 2,000-winner landmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot and I suppose it tells me and everyone else that I\u2019ve been doing this for quite a long time,\u201d Buick said. \u201cThere are some places to do it that aren\u2019t as glamorous as Newmarket\u2019s July meeting, no offence, so to do it here at my home track, for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin, makes it all the more special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quick GuideGreg Wood’s Friday tipsShow<\/p>\n

Newmarket <\/b>1.50 War Hawk 2.25 Venetian Sun 3.00\u00a0Dancing In Paris (nap) 3.35 January (nb) 4.10\u00a0Distant\u00a0Storm 4.45 Up The Pace 5.20 Grandlad<\/p>\n

Ascot<\/b> 2.00 Lady Of Arabia 2.35 Front Line Fury 3.10\u00a0Knights Gold 3.45 Ciara Pearl 4.20 Run With It 4.55\u00a0Fast Track Harry\u00a0<\/p>\n

York <\/b>2.10 Streets Of Gold 2.45 Sayidah Dariyan 3.20\u00a0Aylin\u00a03.55 Up The Jazz 4.32 Mahra\u2019s Love 5.07\u00a0Brazen\u00a0Bolt 5.40\u00a0Secret Beach\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chepstow <\/b>5.35 King Of The Dance 6.10 Blooming Legend 6.40 Miakoda 7.10 Brave Byreflection 7.40 Soi Dao 8.10\u00a0Savannah Smiles 8.40 Spectacular Style\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chester <\/b>5.55 Steel Drum 6.25 Calico Blue 6.55 Miami Matrix 7.25 Miss Herschel 7.55 Love Beach 8.25 Maharajas Express 8.55 Petra Celera<\/p>\n

Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n

In the main supporting race, the Group Two July Stakes, Eve Johnson Houghton celebrated her second high-profile juvenile success in less than a month as Zavateri, the 18-1 outsider of the six runners, ran out an impressive winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and Havana Hurricane [the Windsor Castle Stakes winner at Royal Ascot] are different horses and never work together,\u201d Johnson Houghton said. \u201cI think Zavateri could stretch to a mile next season, he\u2019s got the pedigree for it.\u201d Zavateri is a 33-1 chance with Paddy Power for next season\u2019s 2,000 Guineas, and 8-1 from 50-1 for the Gimcrack Stakes at York next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brant Dunshea, the acting chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority, revealed on Thursday that the regulator is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830636926759038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}