BHA’s judgment again in question during its pursuit of trainer Jim Best

• Ruling body alerted police over journalist’s call to witness jockey
• Churchill’s opposition thinning out for Irish Champion StakesPolice were called in by the British Horseracing Authority to investigate what was imagined to be a suspicious phone call to the jockey Paul John, who was a key BHA witness in a disciplinary hearing at the time. After some investigation by officers of the Devon and Cornwall force, it emerged the caller was a journalist with the Racing Post, se