Skelton Admits Libel Over Showjumping Dope Claim

Evening Standard - London › March 04, 2004

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CHAMPION showjumper Nick Skelton is to pay more than Pounds 20,000 libel damages and legal costs over a claim in his autobiography that one of his horses tested positive for a banned substance because of contamination from another owner's horse.

A High Court judge in London heard that Skelton (above) claimed in his book Only Falls And Horses that a vet spoke of having treated a horse with the substance belonging to jumper Keith Doyle.

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Skelton Admits Libel Over Showjumping Dope Claim

He claimed that Doyle and his fath...

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