Murphy’s law
It’s been a rocky few years for the assorted weirdos of the horse racing industry, but today the quest to clean up their image begins with the release of Amazon doc Horsepower.
Among its stars: jockey Oisin Murphy, who appears while serving a ban for a positive cocaine test.
Oisin has always insisted he doesn’t do drugs, and claims he accidentally absorbed the coke during “sexual contact with a user”.
As excuses go, it’s up there with “I slipped, fell and landed arse-first on a ketchup bottle”, but somehow it worked and he got his ban cut in half.
No word on whether Horsepower will cover Oisin’s subsequent return to the saddle, which saw him crowned Champion jockey, headbutt a bloke in the pub, and fail a pre-race breathalyser test all in the same week.
He’s currently serving a 14 month ban for that last offence, which should leave plenty of time free for filming series two.
