FILE PHOTO: Horse Racing - Royal Ascot - Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Britain - June 16, 2020 Oisin Murphy riding West End Girl in the starting stalls during Day One of Royal Ascot, as racing resumes behind closed doors after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Julian Finney/Pool via Reuters
(Reuters) - Dual champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been handed a three-month suspension by France Galop following a positive test for cocaine after the French governing body took into account his defence that he had not knowingly come into contact with the drug.
Irishman Murphy, 25, denied any wrongdoing and said the positive result was due to "environmental contamination" after he had sex the night before the July 19 test at Chantilly with a woman who he later discovered occasionally used cocaine.
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