Jockey Danny Nikolic denied having passed on any information about nine of his mounts to Neville Clements in telephone conversations with the professional punter and commission agent who laid substantial bets on those horses to lose.On the second day of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RADB) hearing on Tuesday, Paul Holdenson, QC, for Racing Victoria (RVL) stewards, put it to Nikolic that the jockey had given Clements information regarding the chances of each of those horses.Nikolic to

Jockey Danny Nikolic denied having passed on any information about nine of his mounts to Neville Clements in telephone conversations with the professional punter and commission agent who laid substantial bets on those horses to lose.

On the second day of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RADB) hearing on Tuesday, Paul Holdenson, QC, for Racing Victoria (RVL) stewards, put it to Nikolic that the jockey had given Clements information regarding the chances of each of those horses.

Nikolic told the RADB that the conversations with Clements were purely to do with tempo of races, form and ratings so that he knew which horses to follow in a race.

The jockey denied knowing that Clements had a Betfair account and laid horses on it to lose until he learned of it through transcripts of evidence during the stewards' inquiry regarding his relationship with Clements.

Nikolic also denied talking to Clements regarding Baby Boom before the mare, then trained by Nikolic's brother John, ran fourth in a Sunshine Coast maiden as a $1.30 favourite on January 3 this year.

"One hundred per cent. I did not talk to him about that horse," Nikolic said.

He also offered to take a lie detector test to prove it.

Baby Boom - not ridden by Nikolic but deemed by the board to be relevant to the case - was laid on Betfair by Clements who won $56,000 on her at an average price of $1.80.

"He (Clements) told me about it when I started getting some headlines (over this case)," Nikolic told the board.

"He said he laid it for more than he anticipated."

Clements has been warned off Victorian racetracks over failing to give stewards his telephone records in the Nikolic investigation and is one of three punters warned off in Queensland over the Baby Boom case.

Nikolic told the board that Clements had never asked him whether one of his mounts could win.

"What he might ask me is `have you ever been on this thing's back and has it done well'," said the jockey.

He said he knew that Clements put bets on for close friend and best man at his wedding, John O'Neill, "all the time".

Earlier Holdenson called evidence from betting exchange Betfair's integrity risk manager Matthew Clark.

It was established that the nine Clements bets in question had an average lay risk of $15,074, much higher than the lay risks taken on other jockeys' mounts.

Clark told the board that the higher amounts of money Clements laid on horses ridden by Nikolic over other riders flagged interest in his account and that RVL stewards were alerted by a number of emails.

"This is what we would term a bias due to activity and the size of the risk taken," he said.

Richard Smith SC, for Nikolic, told the board that Clements had also lost on five of Nikolic's mounts which he laid when four of them had won and one he laid for the place had run second.

He also put it that the nine Nikolic mounts laid substantially by Clements was "a pretty selective lot of horses".

Nikolic on Monday pleaded not guilty to two charges, two of improper practice and two of conduct prejudicial to the interests of racing.

The hearing will continue on Wednesday with final submissions while the Board will announce its decision next Tuesday.