Former jockey Danny Brock is set to face a disciplinary hearing over alleged breaches of the rules, including allegations he had not ridden horses to achieve the best possible placings over a ten month period.
Brock, who has not ridden since July last year, when he was given a 30-day whip ban, will face a British Horseracing Authority independent disciplinary panel on Wednesday which is scheduled to last three days.
The panel will consider whether Brock breached the rules regarding the communication of inside information, was involved in corrupt or fraudulent practices in relation to racing and failed to ride horses on their merits and/or achieve the best possible placing.
Five other individuals, Sean McBride, Andrew Perring, Eugene Maloney, Luke Olley and Luke Howells, face allegations over involvement in corrupt or fraudulent practices in relation to racing.
The case involves nine races run at all-weather tracks between December 2018 and September 2019, two at Lingfield, one at Kempton, five at Chelmsford and one at Southwell.
Seven of the races, not all of which are under BHA scrutiny, involve Mochalov. Brock rode the horse in six of the races, winning once and finishing second twice.
In the other races, Brock finished second in a two horse race at Southwell and won the last race on the charge list, a classified stakes at Chelmsford in September 2019, in which he rode Resurrected.
The Chelmsford stewards inquired into the apparent improvement in form of the winner, who went off a gambled on 10-1 chance having not been placed in three previous starts, and the trainer’s explanations, that the filly benefitted from the drop in trip and the yard was in better form, were noted.
On the same day Brock was found to have used a modified whip, which was wrapped in two elastic bands, after the filly was marked.
The incident provoked a huge outcry on social media with the jockey complaining he had received death threats. He was fined £140 by the stewards but this was subsequently replaced by a seven day ban.
Brock rode the first of his 106 winners in 2009 and enjoyed his most successful campaign in 2014 when he rode 27 winners.
