The reigning champion jockey, Oisin Murphy, who is serving a 14-month suspension from the saddle, has said he experienced alcohol-related blackouts during a period of heavy drinking that led to two breaches of the alcohol rules in 2021, including a failed pre-race breath test at Newmarket in October.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Murphy said: “When I was happy I would drink, when I was sad I would drink. I might last a week or sometimes a month [without alcohol] but it would spiral out of control again.”
