Apprentice jockey David Long was banned for 18 days (described as a "long ban"!) for excessive use of the whip; flat jockey Robert Winston was banned for one year for race fixing.

It seems you can cheat and beat the living daylights out of a horse and not much happens - cheat by drugging the horse and you get a one year ban.

The point about jockeys testing positive for drugs (like Kieran Fallon) is that the crime is not sufficiently punished.

This is relevant to the Appleby question - see Snail's post

Subject: RE: Folklore: Appleby Horse Fair: A Tradition Too Far?
From: TheSnail - PM
Date: 20 Jun 07 - 08:23 PM