Three-time champion jockey Silvestre de Sousa has been hit with a ten-month ban for a betting offence.
Brazilian de Sousa, who topped the British rankings in 2015, 2017 and 2018 and now rides in Hong Kong, was sentenced after pleading guilty to enabling another jockey Vagnes Borges to place a bet.
The 42-year-old appeared before Hong Kong stewards on Friday at a hearing into a report from the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s integrity department. Both riders admitted being in breach of the rule which forbids jockeys from having a “bet or facilitate the making of a bet or have any interest in a bet on any race or any contingency relating to a race meeting.”
