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Spencer Hearing Set For Monday

Jamie Spencer will find out on Monday if he is to be punished under the ?non-triers' rule, with the long-running investigation into the performance of Mickmacmagoole at Southwell in November 2005 set to come to a conclusion.

A disciplinary hearing at Horseracing Regulatory Authority headquarters in London was adjourned in February last year before it had even started.

Legal argument over the case commenced before the scheduled start time of 10.30am and continued for over two hours before it was agreed to defer proceedings to a future date.

The then-champion jockey was summoned along with Irish trainer Seamus O'Donnell to answer questions concerning the running of the horse at the Nottinghamshire venue.

The case was referred after the horse's apparent improvement in form when winning a banded stakes race when well-backed at the same track three weeks later.

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