John Gosden’s plea fails to move BHA panel on Rab Havlin French drug ban

• Trainer silences room at panel hearing with impassioned defence of jockey
• Havlin has to serve rest of six-month ban for failing a drug testAn impassioned intervention by John Gosden was not enough to turn things around for his jockey Rab Havlin, who failed in his efforts to kill off a drugs ban imposed by the French authorities. Havlin hotly denied taking cocaine, which France Galop claims was found in a urine sample he gave at Saint-Cloud last autumn, but he will now have to serve