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Graham Bradley is one of eight people who are to face Jockey Club charges following the lifting of reporting restrictions last Friday surrounding the Operation Extend trials. The trials, including, at 14 months, the second longest trial in English criminal history led to 15 convictions for drugs importation.
Bradley, a Cheltenham Gold Cup winning rider in 1983, gave evidence at the trial of another former jockey, Barrie Wright, in which he admitted being paid to provide inside information on racing to Brian Brendan Wright, now the subject of an international arrest warrant.
Bradley, Barrie Wright and a third man, Christopher Coleman, who has not held a licence issued by the Jockey Club, have been contacted, either directly or through solicitors, by the Jockey Club of their intentions to hold disciplinary hearings to decide whether they should be served with exclusion orders – a warning off – from racecourses. Bradley now has career as a successful bloodstock agent and racing adviser to the footballers Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler.
The Jockey Club will also hold hearings to consider imposing exclusion orders on Brian Brendan Wright, his son Brian Anthony Wright, who has been sentenced to 16 years, Ian Kiernan (20 years) and Paul Shannon (5 years).
The ex-jockey Dermot Browne is the subject to a 10-year period of disqualification imposed by the Jockey Club in October 1992. Prior to the expiry of that penalty, the Club confirmed that it will consider his admission of doping a large number of horses in 1990.
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