Jockey Graham Gibbons has been been fined after being arrested at a race meeting for failing to attend court for being drunk and disorderly.

Gibbons, 31, had just completed his third race of a meeting in Wolverhampton on Monday when police arrived after he failed to attend Scarborough Magistrates Court last week.

He had been due to appear on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Norton, Malton, on April 8.

The magistrate fined Gibbons, of Wetwang, £960 on Tuesday after he had spent the night in the cells.

He was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £96 victim surcharge after admitting being drunk and disorderly and failing to answer his bail.

Ian Brickman, mitigating, said Gibbons had gone drinking in Malton after a point-to-point at Whitwell-on-the-Hill and was found in an extremely intoxicated state.

He said Gibbons had failed to answer bail due to racing commitments and then been “embarrassed” by his very public arrest.