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I KNOW SOME PANORAMA PROGRAMMES HAVE BEEN SHOWN HERE BEFORE.

On Sunday, the BBC's Panorama programme lifted the lid on what it called "the corruption of racing".
A year in the making, the one-hour programme raised allegations of race-fixing, dubious betting networks and jockeys mixing with criminals.
At the heart of the allegations was Roger Buffham, the Jockey Club's former head of security turned whistleblower for the BBC.

After a series of cases in the High Court, the programme makers were given permission to use secret files that he had obtained during his time at the Jockey Club.

At the start of the one-hour special, Buffham said: "Racing is not as straight as the Jockey Club and others would ask the public to believe it is.

"I believe it's institutionally corrupt in some respects and the Jockey Club fall short to have the moral courage and resolve to deal with some of the problems."
The Jockey Club, however, insists it has done nothing wrong in its dealings with the sport and any alleged misconduct.
It also issued a statement on Saturday questioning Panorama's impartiality.

"It's astonishing that the BBC omit to inform viewers vital and relevant facts about their two principal witnesses," said Jockey Club public relations director John Maxse.

"They say nothing about the circumstances under which Roger Buffham left the Jockey Club.

"He left after an investigation into allegations of gross misconduct."
Maxse also criticised Panorama for failing to point out that another key interviewee, former jockey Dermot Browne, was serving a 10-year ban imposed by the Jockey Club.
"Omissions of that magnitude are to me an indication of the bias of the programme."
In the programme, Christopher Foster, executive director of the Jockey Club, told presenter Andy Davies: "I don't think that any of the evidence that you have produced shows there's anything that anyone need feel guilty about.
"We act when there's evidence. I don't recall any situation where evidence was available to us where we did not take action."

Panorama, with Buffham's guidance, made a series of allegations against the Jockey Club, jockeys, among them Graham Bradley, and bookmaker Victor Chandler.

Bradley is currently being investigated by the Jockey Club after admitting in court earlier this year to receiving cash in envelopes for passing on privileged information to Brian Wright, racing's infamous "Mr Fixit".

Browne, another ex-jockey, claims to have doped 27 horses during the 1990 season.

'No wrongdoing'
Victor Chandler, one of Britain's leading bookmaking firms, was accused in the programme of having opened betting accounts back in the 1990s for trainers in a bid to obtain extra information about races.

Davies, the interviewer and narrator, said: "If trainers did not bet [on a particular horse], then bookies knew not to back it."

Buffham described these activities as "very wrong", while Victor Chandler refuses to comment on the programme.

Foster, though, insisted there was no wrongdoing.

He says: "It was not an offence under any betting regulation and it was not an offence under the rules of racing.

"We have taken action to now make it an offence."
The Jockey Club has hit back over claims of corruption in racing made on the BBC's Panorama programme on Sunday night.
The programme made allegations concerning race-fixing, dubious betting networks and jockeys mixing with criminals.

But the Jockey Club claims that Roger Buffham, its former head of security who was the BBC's chief informant, has "an axe to grind".

And Jockey Club public relations director John Maxse insisted that the Club had done everything in its power to eliminate corruption from racing.
"We are a very active regulator and when there is evidence we will bring charges against those who have corrupted the sport," he said.
"I do think it's important and it's difficult to sound like you're not whining.
"But Roger Buffham worked for us for nine years and he left the Jockey Club in very acrimonious circumstances last year and he could well be accused of having an axe to grind.

"Something was amiss, but the allegation we did nothing about it is incorrect."

Labour MP Alan Meale has been campaigning for changes in the way racing is run and he dismissed the Jockey Club's response to the programme.

"Clearly the Jockey Club as an institution isn't capable of running racing - that's very clear," he said.
No action

"They're still looking for evidence.

"I think there was a whole host of evidence that was actually presented in the programme, which they've been aware of for a very long time and done nothing about.

"Some of these investigations, some of the evidence that was presented to them, went back six or seven years and they'd never acted upon it.

"They've been told by their own security leader about these problems and, despite the fact that it was brought to them time and time again, they just pushed it under the carpet."
The BBC's Panorama claims to expose what it calls the "corruption of racing", making a series of allegations against the sport's regulators, the Jockey Club, leading jockeys and bookmakers.
The two main allegations concern race-fixing and free betting on the sport.

BBC Sport Online explains the two main talking points and hears arguments from both sides.
Race-fixing claims

Notoriously difficult to prove, at least 20 jockeys have played a part in race-fixing, according to Panorama.

Some have been accused of taking money to alter the course of races and deliberately not trying.

While others have reportedly taken part in doping.
Among those to blow the lid off the practice was former jockey Dermot Browne.
Browne, currently serving a 10-year ban from the Jockey Club for giving information to a bookmaker and other offences, claimed on the programme:
"I got involved in doping in August 1990. We did about 27 races in the months between August and October."

He stopped when he was arrested later in the year but insisted "that did not stop Brian Wright".
Wright, head of the most successful cocaine smuggling gang ever to target Britain, is said to have helped dope horses and fix races and had a number of jockeys on his pay roll.

Browne continued: "He gave them five grand or something like that.

"He (one jockey) did very well out of it. I'd get phone calls from (him) or other jockeys and I'd say 'Have you spoken to Uncle?' That's what everyone called him (Wright).

"They did big races, as big as the Cheltenham Festival. The bigger the race, the bigger the betting. I actually saw some of them collecting their money."

The extent of race-fixing and links with Wright were backed by Roger Buffham, the former Jockey Club head of security and the whistleblower behind the Panorama programme

Buffham told Panorama: "Intelligence and information we had was that national hunt jockeys had close links with organised crime.

"It strikes at the heart of the integrity of horse racing...(that) a jockey can directly affect the outcome of a horse race."
The Jockey Club, however, insisted they were helpless to act against Wright.

Christopher Foster, the executive director, said: "From 1996 to 2002 we were either compromised by serious criminal investigations or could not act because a judge had ordered restrictions on reporting."

Towards the end of the programme he goes further, insisting there had been no foul play.

He added: "We act when there's evidence. I don't recall any situation where evidence was available to us where we did not take action."
No-lose betting claims

The hour-long special's first major allegation centres on Victor Chandler, one of Britain's leading bookmakers.

Buffham suggested that Chandler had, back in the 1990s, opened "free" betting accounts for a number of leading trainers.

He claimed the bookmaker wrote to a number of trainers, offering them accounts up to a certain amount, which would be topped up if they made a loss.
Andy Davies, the programme's narrator, said: "If trainers did not bet then bookies knew not to back it. If they did, then they'd go for it."
Trainers Jimmy Fitzgerald and Gay Kelloway were approached in front of the cameras with letters allegedly revealing they had "no lose accounts".
Calloway simply said, "get your facts right", while Fitzgerald reacted angrily, attempting to tear up the letter.

Fitzgerald later revealed that he had had an account with Victor Chandler but that it was not a "no lose" one.

Buffham's take on Chandler's actions was that it had been "very wrong".

While Chandler refused to comment when approached, Foster added: "It was not an offence under any betting regulation and it was not an offence under the rules of racing.

"We have taken action to now make it difficult. There is no way we would approve of bookmakers paying for privileged information."
Panorama's allegations of corruption in horse racing are just another twist in a long line of scandals which have blighted the sport.

Prison sentences, illegal betting coups, question marks over doping offences and cheating at race courses across Britain have all occurred over the last 30 years.
Seventies
One of the biggest-known betting scandals erupted on the August Bank Holiday in 1974 - the Gay Future coup.

Anthony Collins, a trainer based in Scotland, entered Gay Future in a meeting at Cartmel.
Collins had also entered two other horses, Opera Cloak and Ankerwyke, in races at other courses.

A vast number of small bets were laid, backing Gay Future for a double with either of the other two horses.
Both Opera Cloak and Ankerwyke were pulled out of their races, the double now became a single and, hence, a lot of money was riding on Gay Future.

Soapy flakes were then rubbed into the legs of the Gay Future to give the impression the horse was sweating and keep on-track punters from backing it, holding its odds of 10-1.

The horse duly romped home in first and, following an investigation, Collins and an Irish building contractor Tony Murphy were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the bookmakers and fined.
Eighties
Racing's next major scandal, of a very different nature, centred on Lester Piggott.

The legendary flat racing jockey was jailed in 1985 for a year for failing to accurately declare tax on about £3.2m in earnings.

His imprisonment sent shockwaves through the sport, giving the sport's highest-earning jockeys a serious fright.
Nineties
At the start of 1998, the first large modern-day racing scandal erupted when Jamie Osborne, Dean Gallagher and Leighton Aspell were arrested over allegations of race-fixing.

The inquiry leading to the arrests was launched following positive dope tests on two horses beaten at short odds in jumps races during March 1997.

Avanti Express, trained by Charlie Egerton, failed a drug test after finishing seventh when second favourite at 5-4 in a novice hurdle at Exeter on 7 March.

The trio were all eventually cleared of the charges but the anti-corruption witch-hunt only briefly died down.
2002
In February of this year five stables were raided, including that of top trainer Martin Pipe, to take unannounced urine and blood samples for doping analysis.
The Jockey Club, which carried out the investigation, did not produce a single positive result from the test, backing up their claims that the sport was clean.
But trainers Osborne, Ferdy Murphy and David Wintle are currently under investigation by the Jockey Club.

It follows revelations aired last June in Kenyon Confronts, an undercover BBC programme looking into alleged race-fixing.
In the programme, Osborne was approached by people purporting to be considering buying a horse from him.

He was quoted as saying he was prepared to "**********" and that he knew an in-house jockey who could be used to that effect.

Jockey Graham Bradley, meanwhile, is another in hot water.

He admitted in court that he received cash in envelopes for passing on privileged information to Brian Wright, racing's infamous "Mr Fixit".