18-year ban on jockey
NZPA-AFP Hdof* Mk The Royal Hong Ru Jockey Club on ThMHdgy banned Australian joctey. Rod Staples, from iwting anywhere in the wotwjbr 18 years for fixing WB A jockey club aMMßman said Staples, &«gd also been fined more Qkiin SHKSOO,OOO (iNZIIMfi) after he a letter 78 racing ompife*. The offences inendbd accepting bribes id. influence the outcMtie- of races, passing on infbrnUon about horses to people other than owritas, and not riding horses to. their best abilities, flie spokesman said. '. j: Staples, who started reding here in 1979 inter leaving Perth, was Mnpended in February, IMV, when a race-fixing staldal that lea to the artMtt of a number of jocttH and trainers rocked fee local turf scene. In December, Anstrtb lian jockey, David Brosnan, was sentenced to fine year in jail by the fflgh Court here for hbjMkrt ih the race-fixing ring.The mastermind fit me ring was Identified as local businessman Ws Yuan-Loong. Last September he was given a twoyear sentence, suspended because he has cancer.
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