Wednesday 12 July 2017 17:22, UK
Trainer John Wainwright and former jockey Adam Carter will face the British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel next week relating to the running and riding of a horse at Southwell in June 2014.
Wainwright and Carter, along with registered stable employee Paul Bradley and non-registered/licensed persons John Wright and Peter Bennett, are all facing charges over the performance of Blazeofenchantment, who finished a distant seventh in a seven-furlong handicap at the Nottinghamshire venue over three years ago.
North Yorkshire-based Wainwright is facing two charges centring on if he conspired with Carter and/or Wright to stop the horse running on its merits and if he gave instructions that would stop the horse achieving the best possible placing.
Carter, who was referred to the BHA by the local stewards on the day, faces three possible charges concerning whether he rode the horse on its merits, if he passed inside information to Bradley and/or Bennett and if he did, whether he received any material reward, gift, favour or benefit in kind.
Wright faces charges of conspiring with Carter and/or Wainwright while Bradley and Bennett are accused of using inside information to gain an unfair betting advantage.
Wainwright and Wright insist they are innocent of all charges and are being represented by Stewart-Moore Solicitors Ltd, who issued a statement on their behalf.
It read: "John Wainwright and John Wright are extremely disappointed to have been charged by the BHA in relation to the Blazeofenchantment inquiry. They are completely innocent of the charges.
"The BHA's whole case against them is based on the evidence of a jockey who has given wildly conflicting accounts over the last three years and is refusing to attend next week's inquiry or give any indication as to what his position now is.
"He has not signed a witness statement or explained what his allegations are to the BHA for over two years.
"Frankly it is hard to see how next week's hearing will be anything other than a complete waste of everyone's time."
The hearing begins on Monday and the panel has set aside four days, if needed, to deal with the case.