Racing: Investigation exposes Jockey Club's lack of `backbone'

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 5, 2002| Author: John Cobb | Copyright information

THE JOCKEY CLUB, the regulators of horseracing, face trial by public opinion after a series of damaging allegations in a BBC Panorama programme "The Corruption of Racing" to be screened tomorrow.

Roger Buffham, the former head of security at the Jockey Club, claims in the BBC's flagship documentary programme that horseracing is "institutionally corrupt" and that "a whole generation of National Hunt jockeys had close links to organised crime". The claims are largely refuted by the Jock...

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