Cases

Jockey Club v Carter & Others

Facts

In 2003 the online gambling organisation Betfair discovered unusual betting patterns on 8 races in which a jockey, GC, had participated. On each occasion one or more of 5 Betfair accounts had been used to bet that GC's ride would lose, and that is what had occurred. One of the Betfair accounts belonged to CC, a semi-professional gambler who had been 'warned off', or banned from racing by the Jockey Club (JC) earlier in 2003, for buying inside information from jockeys. The JC investigated and its Disciplinary Panel held an inquiry into whether GC had passed inside information to CC that his ride would lose, and other matters. The conduct of CC and 5 other individuals was inquired into at the same time. The Jockey Club relied heavily on records, obtained from third parties via court orders, of phone and internet communications (1) between GC and CC (2) between the gamblers themselves and (3) between some of them and Betfair.

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