Oisin Murphy, Britain’s reigning champion Flat jockey, has been charged with one count of driving a motor vehicle while over the prescribed level of alcohol and one count of failing to co-operate with a preliminary test at the roadside following a collision in the early hours of Sunday 27 April this year.
Thames Valley Police said in a statement on Thursday that Murphy, 29, was charged by postal requisition on 19 June. He rode a double at Royal Ascot, on Arabian Story in the Britannia Stakes and Never So Brave in the Buckingham Palace Stakes on the same day.
The collision inApril involved a grey Mercedes A Class vehicle which left the road near Hermitage, West Berkshire, and crashed into a tree.
Murphy is due to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court on 3 July.
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