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Just heard that Paul Blockley has been warned off for 2 1/2 years and Dean McKeown for 4 years by the BHA
Trainer Paul Blockley and jockey Dean McKeown have each been found guilty following the latest British Horseracing Authority inquiry into alleged racing corruption.
Blockley and McKeown were found guilty of breaching rule 201 (v) in that they conspired with others to commit a corrupt or fraudulent practice.
Blockley has also found guilty of breaking rule 155(ii) in that he failed to give McKeown proper instructions to ensure Hits Only Money ran on its merits at Wolverhampton in December 2005.
McKeown was found guilty of breaching rule 157 in that he intentionally failed to ensure that Only If I Laugh, Smith N Allan Oils, Hits Only Cash and Hits Only Money ran on their merits in races between June 2004 and December 2005.
Owner Clive Whiting has also been found guilty of misleading BHA investigators.
Owners David Lovatt and Martyn Wakefield, along with Whiting’s brother Vincent, former owner Marcus Reeder, David Wright and Nicholas Rook have all been found guilty of breaching rule 201(v) as well.
Blockley has been warned off for two and a half years and McKeown for four years.
The verdicts and punishments are subject to appeal.
I have just got back from Carlisle. So I haven’t heard any racing news apart from logging onto the Racing Post site, where they have the news, but only a couple of lines, with "more to follow" so I don’t know anything more of the ban, but the time scale is large.
I don’t know what the ban entails. I wonder if Paul Blockley’s wife will try to continue training? I’m not sure what the rules are regarding that, she may not be allowed to? Any ban all seems academic if she is able to just pick up where he left off.
Punishments for the others:-
Clive Whiting has been warned off for eight years, Vincent Whiting four years, Wright and Rook excluded for six years, Reeder and Wakefield 18 months. Lovatt was fined £20,000
` Turning point’ claim in war on corruption
Jockey Club says last race to spark investigation was 11 months ago
Published: 18/01/2005 (Sport)THE Jockey Club yesterday (17th Jan 2005) bravely declared that the war on corruption in racing had reached “a turning point” as it revealed that it is now 11 months since a race sparked a serious investigation…………John Maxse, the Club’s public relations director, telling the Racing Post yesterday: “I would be very happy for you to quote me as saying there has been a turning point. If anything, it was actually last spring.
Does not seem so clever now, does it?
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Good riddence and I hope this acts as a deterrent for anyone else who might be doing such scummy acts, because those bans were not delt with on the light side 4 and 2 years is a long time.
4/6 chance the racing post don’t make the story front page news tomorrow due to it not doing the reputation of the sport any good, and making people believe…(rightly in this case), the sport is bent. Probably have a picture of Henrythenavigator instead.
Can I have an even monkey that they do?
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4/6 chance the racing post don’t make the story front page news tomorrow due to it not doing the reputation of the sport any good, and making people believe…(rightly in this case), the sport is bent. Probably have a picture of Henrythenavigator instead.
Can I have an even monkey that they do?
The Racing Post are a business and any business needs to make profit in someway and weather the headline is bad for the sport or not, it will sell more papers.
Regarding the horse’s that have been affected by the scandalous acts, you know we have blokes that sell women from abroad or pay them to do things they don’t, is there not a law for horse’s that can stop things like this.
I am delighted to hear this news, particularly in relation to McKeown.
Splendid news indeed
Live by the sword, die by the sword
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A good way the Racing Post can advertise this story
" A monumental turn around in the way Racing handle’s its stakeholders, please read for further informaiton "
While this verdict is to be welcomed, what happens to the 60k they won on Betfair laying these horses?
I’m sure there are plenty of people who would be happy to be "warned off" for a few years if it meant they could pocket a tidy five figure sum.
Laying horses that aren’t trying remains one of the easiest and least dangerous ways of stealing sizeable amounts of money from people – and with the economy getting worse by the day, the problem is only going to get worse in the coming months and years.
Quote – While this verdict is to be welcomed, what happens to the 60k they won on Betfair laying these horses?
If there was enough evidence to deprive them of their livelihoods for a significant period surely there is enough to build a fraud case and have them taken compeletely out of the way of temptation for a year or two?
The frustrating thing is that McKeown could ride and Blockley could train. All a bit sad really.
As is this truth –
Quote from tdk – “Laying horses that aren’t trying remains one of the easiest and least dangerous ways of stealing sizeable amounts of money from people”
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I’m still trying to get over the idea that Paul Blockley was a trainer ‘you could read’, and that the vilifaction of Dean McKeown was somehow borne of the Betfair forum. I’ve been in hysterics for half an hour, though I will admit that some of that was due to having watched Tottenham capitulate against Udinese.
Wasn’t it Blockley who appeared on ATR a few years ago, told James Willoughby that his horse had no chance, laughed his corrupt nuts off that it had hacked up and then closed a post-race interview with ‘put you away there, didn’t I?’
That in itself is nothing too drastic, but it’s wholly indicative of the type of man he is.
The warning off of both trainer and jockey, as well as the associated owners, has to be commended even if it has been a long time in coming. I personally think McKeown is lucky not to be on the receiving end of a much longer ban, as I’m quite sure there are plenty of races, in which he was involved, that the BHA should have looked in to (watch his ride on Stevie Gee on 20/07/2006 where he visibly restrained the horse to finish a staying-on fifth, before waltzing in on him next time out having been backed from 40/1 into 8/1).
McKeown and Blockley out of the game. Hurrah – it will all be straight now.
I am looking forward to waking up tomorrow and being able to bet in total confidence.
McKeown and Blockley out of the game. Hurrah – it will all be straight now.
I am looking forward to waking up tomorrow and being able to bet in total confidence.
That’s hardly the point is it?
A start has to be made somewhere and the BHA get plenty of stick so credit where credit is due for getting this one right.
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