Disgraced trainer Milton Harris launches shock new career in racing after bullying ban

DISGRACED trainer Milton Harris has launched a shock new career in racing – just seven months after being kicked out of the sport for good.

Grade 1-winning trainer Harris was stripped of his licence indefinitely in January after the BHA ruled he was ‘not a fit and proper person’.

Fellow trainer Simon Earle revealed the horrific bullying he had been subjected to by Harris, while the BHA also heard numerous allegations of ‘inappropriate behaviour’.

However, in a video posted to X from the account @AdvisoryMilton, the banned former handler revealed the launch of a new tipping service.

Harris said in the video: “We’ve decided to offer a very select service for a select number of clients to help guide them through the racing world.

“We’ve had a lot of contacts over the years, a lot of horses I’m still involved in, and a lot of connections around the country, with over 2,000 runners nationally in the last number of years.

“We’re going to offer a service and will do our best to make your racing enjoyable and most importantly profitable.”

Harris, who trained Grade 1-winning hurdler Knight Salute, was made bankrupt in 2010.

When he was regranted his licence in 2018 the BHA attached a number of conditions concerning his financial dealings.

And in spring 2023, they attached several new conditions after they received complaints from some of his ex-employees.

Among them were conditions that he could not employ young people or ‘adults at risk’ and one which also gave the BHA power to prevent him from attending certain race meetings.

Harris was found by the licensing committee earlier this year to be in breach of a number of the conditions and, after hearing evidence from several witnesses, some who could not be identified, the panel said: “We consider that Milton Harris is ungovernable, or at least in the regulatory context, not capable of being regulated.”

The BHA judicial panel outlined details of the trainer’s ‘campaign of harassment’ towards trainer Earle, whose Wiltshire yard was next door to Harris’.

They often shared the same gallops and facilities but, after a handful of disputes, Earle said Harris would often try to intimidate and belittle him in front of others, even challenging Earle to a fight under ‘Queensberry Rules’, something he said he had done in the past to settle issues.

Earle secretly recorded several confrontations with Harris, during which he used foul and abusive language and behaved in a threatening way.