October 2nd, 2020 | 
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Dermot Browne
In his heyday in the early Eighties, Dermot Browne was an accomplished amateur National Hunt jockey. Much like someone adapt at best online casino games, he twice became Irish champion amateur and famously won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle on Browne’s Gazette in 1984. At the end of his riding career, Browne followed in the footsteps of his father, Liam, by becoming a trainer in Lambourn, Berkshire.
However, his new career was short-lived because, in October, 1992, he was found guilty of six breaches of the Rules of Racing, including passing ‘inside’ information to a bookmaker for financial reward, by the Jockey Club Disciplinary Committee and ‘warned off’ for ten years. His original ban – which precluded him for entering any racecourse, being employed in any racing stable or dealing, in any capacity, with racehorses – was due to expire in October, 2002.
However, by that stage, Browne had gained even greater notoriety after claiming, in a television documentary, that he had coordinated the administration of the fast-acting tranquilliser acetylpromazine, or ACP for short, to 23 horses between August and September, 1990. Quite a scene, and a worldaway from casino sur internet . One of the horses involved was Bravefoot, who finished last of five, when 11/8 favourite, in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster.
Browne apparently administered the drug at the behest of Brian Wright, who was, himself, warned off for twenty years by the Jockey Club Disciplinary Committee in 2002, while still a fugitive from justice. In 2005, Wright, nicknamed ‘The Milkman’, was arrested on an International Arrest Warrant in Spain and subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for masterminding a multi-million pound international cocaine smuggling operation. Browne, for his part, was warned off for a further twenty years and only escaped being banned for life by virtue of a letter, exposing further corruption, which he left with the Disciplinary Committee.