Record-breaking jockey Hollie Doyle handed one-month suspended ban after failing drugs test on her first ride following elbow surgery

Hollie Doyle has been given a one-month ban, suspended for a year, after failing a drugs test at Newcastle on March 31.

Doyle tested positive for Dihydrocodeine, a substance found in painkillers, on her first ride after returning from a fractured and dislocated left elbow.

Doyle had been prescribed DHC after surgery but stopped using it because it made her feel ill. 

She then used paracetamol and painkillers called Pabron Ace Pro, which she had bought over the counter while riding in Japan and which she thought was ibuprofen.

The BHA deemed this was the likely source of DHC.