Oisin Murphy, Britain’s reigning champion jockey on the Flat, has been charged with one count of driving a motor vehicle while over the prescribed level of alcohol and one count of failing to cooperate with a preliminary test at the roadside after a collision in the early hours of Sunday 27 April this year.
Thames Valley police said in a statement on Thursday that Murphy, 29, was charged by postal requisition on 19 June. That day, he rode a double at Royal Ascot, on Arabian Story in the Britannia Stakes and Never So Brave in the Buckingham Palace Stakes.
