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Jockeys cautioned over failed alcohol tests

The first two jockeys in Britain to fail random breath tests for alcohol were cautioned by the sport´s disciplinary body today.

Keith Dalgleish and Joe Fanning were tested before meetings at Redcar in north-east England in September and November 2003.

Both men had alcohol levels above 54 milligrams per 100 millilitres of urine, but below Britain´s drink-driving limit of 108 milligrams per 100 millilitres, the Jockey Club said.

A figure above the drink-drive limit would have prompted a one-month suspension. In all, 383 breath tests have been carried out since random testing was introduced in Britain last July. Only Fanning and Dalgleish have tested positive.