Brant Dunshea, the acting chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority, revealed on Thursday that the regulator is going to apply “incredibly strict” conditions to Oisin Murphy’s riding licence after the champion jockey’s conviction on a drink-driving charge at Reading magistrates’ court last week.
Murphy was fined £70,000, one of the highest penalties ever imposed for drink-driving in the UK, and banned for 20 months after an incident near his home in Berkshire in late April when a car that Murphy was driving collided with a tree. The jockey was nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol in his breath when tested by police around seven hours after the crash.
