After riding high since relocating to the Gold Coast “King’ Callow’s career has been brought down to earth after the seasoned jockey was suspended for three months and fined $4500 following a Victorian Racing Tribunal’s hearing into betting related charges which occurred all the way back in 2013 when Callow was based in Victoria.
Noel Callow was also handed a further three-month penalty, suspended for twelve months, for making misleading statements to stewards regarding betting accounts.
As reported on Racing.com, Judge John Bowman told the hearing, “At the time of committing these offences you were experienced and well known. You must have known that what you were doing breached the rules, which were designed to protect the image of racing,”
“We take into account the fact you pleaded guilty and have no relevant prior convictions, we also bear in mind the offences occurred nine years ago.
“None of the bets were on horses you were riding on or on races in which you were riding.
“We regard these three offences (failing to declare accounts) as being of greater gravity than the betting charges … you wilfully filled in forms that failed to reveal the operation of any betting account.”
Callow, a multiple Group 1 winner, has not ridden in a race since being injured at the Gold Coast meeting on November 5.
The suspension has no bearing on the work he is currently engaged in as one of the track maintenance team at the Gold Coast Turf Club.
Callow was a clearcut winner of the 2021/22 Gold Coast Jockey Premiership with fifty-three winners (twenty-three ahead of his nearest rival) and at the time he sustained his injury he was in second place in the same Premiership behind Robbie Fradd.
