Former top jockey Danny Nikolic has been accused of lying in court to beat a conviction over a car accident.
Nikolic, 39, has been charged with perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Documents tendered in court by police allege Nikolic lied in a Dandenong Magistrates Court hearing on February 24 this year and avoided a conviction when he swore he was not driving his car when it crashed on March 9, 2012.
Nikolic, of South Melbourne, was charged on Friday and appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Magistrate Donna Bakos extended his bail until he reappears on September 15.
Nikolic left the court without comment.
The highlight of Nikolic's racing career was a win aboard Mummify in the 2003 Caulfield Cup.
He is banned from racing until October 2015 for threatening and intimidating behaviour towards a steward.
That incident happened outside a hearing room at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which was adjudicating his appeal against an earlier two-year ban for threatening Victoria's chief racing steward and his family.
Nikolic's racing licence has expired, and he must re-apply to Racing Victoria to ride competitively again.
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