Media Release
November 4, 2002
Sky Television Exposes The Truth About Racing
SKY Digital’s BBC World (channel 55) has secured the rights to show one of the most controversial documentaries of all
time, The Corruption of Racing, PREMIERING Saturday, November 9 at 9:10pm.
After eight months of extensive investigation by Panorama, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme fought two High
Court actions instigated by the British Horse racing governing body Jockey Club to legally broadcast the documentary.
Head of the Jockey Club’s Security Department for nine years, Roger Buffham exposes exclusively to Panorama and the
world the secretive world of corruption that exists within this billion-dollar industry.
Many of Buffham’s reports involve the criminal activities of the notorious Brian Wright, head of the most successful
cocaine smuggling gang ever to have targeted Britain.
Buffham reveals that for years Wright had a score of top jockeys on his payroll, some of who were fixing races for him,
including former champion amateur jockey, Dermot Browne.
In his first open interview, Browne tells Panorama how he and other jockeys were offered cash, cocaine and prostitutes
to fix races.
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Confronted in this programme are some of the most high profile figures in international racing; former Gold Cup winning
jockey Graham Bradley, and current champion jockey Kieran Fallon.
The Corruption of Racing discovers an industry seemingly incapable and unwilling to purge itself of corruption -
PREMIERES Saturday, November 9 at 9:10pm on BBC World, SKY Digital (channel 55).
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