RACING: Graham Bradley goes before the Jockey Club today to face a series of charges in a hearing set to last three days. The former top National Hunt jockey will be questioned over his self-confessed passing of privileged information and alleged relationship with suspected drugs smuggler Brian Wright.

Bradley, now a successful bloodstock agent, was among the men named by the Jockey Club in June who will be the subject of disciplinary hearings following revelations that a cocaine-smuggling gang had infiltrated racing.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup winning jockey of 1983 will be asked to explain his comments during a trial at Southampton Crown Court in which friend and former weighing-room colleague Barrie Wright was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to import cocaine.

Bradley admitted he and Wright regularly passed on "privileged and sensitive information" to Brian Wright (no relation) for money and rewards.

Among the charges facing Bradley are: 1. Whether he gave or offered to give on various dates during the term of his licence information concerning horses entered in races in return for profit; 2. If he received during the term of his licence part of the proceeds of bets on horse racing; and/or received presents in connection with a race from persons other than the owner of the horse ridden by him in that race; 3. Whether, as he describes in his autobiography The Wayward Lad, he conspired with Brian Wright and/or Paul Shannon to bring about the unwarranted abandonment of the 1987 Cheltenham Gold Cup in the interests of particular bets; 4. Over the information he gave to the Licensing Committee in 1999 about his relationship with Brian Wright.