Racing

Jockey Kieran Shoemark, who has ridden for the Queen and piloted Atty Persse to victory in the King George V Handicap at Royal Ascot last month, has failed a drugs test for a banned substance – believed to be cocaine. Paul Struthers, the chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association, said yesterday “Kieran accepts full responsibility for his mistakes and would like to apologise to his colleagues and the wider sport.”