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Ben Melham, Mark Zahra and Ethan Brown are all appealing the severity of their sentences following their involvement in the ‘AirBNB Gate’ party get together last week.
At the time of writing, it is not known yet whether Jamie Kah and Celine Gaudray followed suit before the deadline to appeal expired.
All of these jockeys were handed three month suspensions by Racing Victoria stewards for their breach of the strict racing Covid-19 protocols which they were duty bound to uphold … and they all also picked up hefty fines from Victorian police for breaching the directions of the state’s Chief Health Officer.
At the same time that this appeal process will be undertaken, all of the five jockeys involved are facing a further possible suspensions if they are found guilty of the further serious charges that stewards have levelled at them … namely that of giving false or misleading evidence about the attendees at the AirBNB … meaning there is still plenty to play out here and just how both of these matters advance will be watched with a keen interest.
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