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Thu 11 Nov 2002Murphy hit with #4,000 fineRACING:  Ferdy Murphy was fined £4,000 by the British Jockey Club yesterday after he "held up his hands" and admitted that his appearance in the BBC's Kenyon Confronts programme, broadcast in June, had acted to bring racing into disrepute. The fine, though well short of the theoretical maximum of £35,000, is one of the largest ever handed down for a disrepute offence.Murphy was secretly filmed by the BBC team after being approached by the undercover reporter Paul Kenyon, who posed as a prospective owner hoping to win money from betting on his horses. During their discussion Murphy apparently claimed to have won £1,600 on a betting exchange by laying one of his own horses, Christiansted, when he finished seventh in a race at Fakenham.