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Allegations of Sexual
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Top jockey Michael Walker just
wants to concentrate on his riding after revelations of a false rape claim
made against him. Saying he had no comment to make
about the claim, Walker, 22, added yesterday: "I just want to concentrate
on my riding. "I don't want to comment.
Wait until it is before the court. I don't want to say anything because I
have been advised it could be used." A Napier woman, 21, has been
charged with making a false complaint about an incident she claimed took
place on Friday morning. She has been released on bail and
will appear in the Hastings District Court on Wednesday. Walker, who was riding in Hastings
and Gisborne over the weekend, was once considered the "wild child"
of racing. In Hastings on Saturday, he won
one race and came a close second in another in the group-one Stoney Bridge
Stakes. At yesterday's Poverty Bay meeting
at Gisborne, he did not win any races. Walker, who is engaged and has a
young baby, admitted in a television interview last year he used cocaine
during a seven-month riding stint in Melbourne in 2004. |
