Top Australian jockey cops 10-month ban over bet
Champion Australian jockey Damien Oliver has been banned for a total of 10 months over his $A10,000 bet on a competition Equus caballus inwards a race inwards which he was riding.
Oliver set the wager on a horse, “Miss Octopussy”, inwards a race at Moonee Valley 2 years ago. Miss Octopussy, the favourite, went on to win the race. Oliver rode the 2nd favoutire, Europa Point, to 6th place.
Oliver revealed during a Racing Victoria hearing on Tuesday that his life had been inwards turmoil at the time. His union was inwards trouble, he was struggling with drink, together with he aspect upward a number of psychological issues.
Stewards handed Oliver an eight-month disqualification on the betting charge, with a farther 2 months recess from riding inwards races. He was also suspended for a calendar month for using a mobile telephone within the Moonee Valley jockeys’ room to house the bet. That penalisation volition live on served concurrently.
Oliver, a two-time Melbourne Cup winner, volition live on able to resume riding inwards races on September xiii adjacent year.
The stewards said they took into account, with other things, Oliver’s admissions of guilt, his forthright prove together with remorse, outstanding tape inwards the racing manufacture for over twenty years, grapheme references together with confidential medical reports, equally good equally the stewards’ finding that the lawsuit of the relevant race was non affected yesteryear Oliver’s bet.
In a tilt released subsequently the hearing, Oliver said: “It was a spur-of-the-moment conclusion that I volition regret for the residuum of my life together with beyond.
“There are no excuses for the fact that I breached the trust of many people inwards the manufacture together with I broke a telephone commutation dominion inwards racing.
“I desire people to know that piece I bring admitted to this serious breach together with tin offering no excuses, I bring never inwards my 24 years of racing, non tried to my hardest to win when I am on the dorsum of a horse.”
Oliver told stewards the bet was a spur-of-the-moment activity together with he had never earlier bet on competition horses.
Oliver is also banned from entering racetracks, racing stables or preparation tracks during the set about viii months of the ban, only volition live on allowed to ride trackwork for the concluding 2 months.
Jockeys inwards Commonwealth of Australia are forbidden from betting on whatever Equus caballus races inwards the country.
Racing Victoria chairman Michael Duffy said: “It is my belief that the penalisation delivered inwards today’s stewards’ interrogation was appropriate given the co-operation afforded yesteryear Mr Oliver together with the matters position frontwards on his behalf inwards mitigation of penalty.
“The resultant of today’s stewards’ interrogation has sent a powerful message to the jockey profession that in that location is a cipher tolerance of whatever breaches of the prohibition on betting.
“The affair involving Damien Oliver together with Miss Octopussy is instantly closed. However, it should live on noted that the Committee’s inquiries into other matters raised during the investigation are ongoing.”
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