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One of the darkest disciplinary cases in British racing this century has its latest (unusually short) chapter
The reference was easy to miss – and not just because it came at a time when most of us had Christmas on our minds.
On December 14, James Robert Crickmore of Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, was added to the BHA’s exclusion list for four months – the very day his previous disqualification had ended – with a short explanation simply stating this was “by order of the disciplinary officer”.
The name might not be immediately familiar to many but this was in fact the latest chapter in one of British racing’s darkest disciplinary cases this century.
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