Racing: Wright warned off tracks for 20 years

Some of the most feared names connected with racing yesterday received lengthy bans from the sport at a Jockey Club disciplinary committee hearing. Brian Brendan Wright, his son Brian Anthony Wright, Paul Shannon, Ian Kiernan and Barrie Wright received bans for indefinite periods after they were found guilty of being involved in corruption in racing.

Brian Brendan Wright cannot apply to have the warning-off order lifted for 20 years, his son for 12, ex-jockey Barrie Wright (no relation) for 15 and Kiernan and Shannon for 10. The charges involved the passing of inside information from the former jockeys Graham Bradley and Dermot Browne to Wright and his associates.

Bradley has lodged an appeal against a ban of eight years that was imposed on him last month, while Browne was warned off for 20 years.

Evidence placed before the three-man committee included transcripts given to Southampton Crown Court at the trial of Barrie Wright and to Woolwich Crown Court at the trial of Brian Anthony Wright, Shannon and Kiernan.