Rider vows to race again at end of 12-year ban

Darren Egan has told the Racing Post he has not given up hope of resurrecting his career as a jockey even if he has to wait until the end of a 12-year corruption ban which prohibits him from riding until November 2027.

The 24-year-old former apprentice was handed one of the stiffest penalties ever imposed on a jockey when found guilty by a BHA disciplinary panel last November of involvement in a conspiracy, in which he was found to have stopped two horses who had been laid by gambler Philip Langford in 2013 to win more than £50,000.

But, speaking from Maryland in the USA, where he has been given a work-riding job by training legend Michael Dickinson, Egan said: "I've no doubt in my mind I'll ride in another race, it's going to happen."