Browne claims corruption is ongoing

RACING: Dermot Browne walked away from horse racing for another 20 years yesterday issuing a warning that some of his fellow…

RACING: Dermot Browne walked away from horse racing for another 20 years yesterday issuing a warning that some of his fellow conspirators remain active.

The self-confessed horse-doper, a former jockey and trainer, was formally warned off from racing until 2022 after a lengthy hearing of the Jockey Club's disciplinary committee.

But before he left Portman Square in London, Browne revealed that he had left a letter, containing some of racing's darkest secrets, for the attention of the club's executive director Christopher Foster.

The inquiry came about as a result of Browne's recent revelations in court cases that he had taken part in the doping of 23 horses between August 2nd and September 20th.

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Having already been warned off for 10 years since October 1992, he returned yesterday to be told that he would be a disqualified person for another 20 years. "I will be 61 when I come back," smiled Browne, "Maybe I could come back in a veterans' race!"

Browne, who rode a total of 169 winners in his career, added: "I had some good times in the sport and there are a lot of very hard-working and honest people in the game. I got involved with some of the wrong ones and sadly, some of them are still out there now."

Browne refused to name those he had been involved with who are still in the sport, but said: "I've handed a letter over today to be given to Christopher Forster and I will let them work away at it. I hope they will do something about it. A lot of people say they don't know me but the truth is out there and one day it might just come and bite them.

"They can say what they like. Some people don't want to admit that I am telling the truth. There are still people involved in racing who I know have been involved in corruption, generally in racing, some high-profile. But I'm not going to name names now."