Maxime Tissier staked £1,205 at betting shop in Newmarket but a BHA panel took a favourable decision with the French rider
A jump jockey who admitted placing more than £1,000 in cash bets on horse racing in William Hill’s shop in Newmarket in November 2019 has avoided being warned off by the
British Horseracing Authority’s disciplinary committee, after the panel accepted that he had failed to appreciate the scope of the regulator’s strict ban on betting by licensed jockeys.
Maxime Tissier, who has had 22 winners from 140 rides since moving to
Britain from
France during the 2017-18 season, staked £1,205 with a net loss of £521 between 1 November and 23 November 2019, on 15 racing bets which were the subject of Thursday’s hearing. BHA investigators were unable to obtain detailed records of any betting before 1 November 2019, but Tissier was seen as a “regular customer” by staff in the betting shop, and Charlotte Davison, who presented the BHA’s case, told Thursday’s hearing that a series of debit card deposits at the shop “would tend to support that view”.