Possible Clues:

• Fraud at Gloucestershire trials? One's brought to court
• Awful lot of noise around pottery, smashing item?
• Implement to hit a shuttlecock over a net
• Paperwork: huge amount carried by supporter in sports kit
• Sporting smasher, big noise in the world of equestrianism?
• Something handled in court -- swindle involving inferior china?
• Fraud in equestrian competition? One's taken to court
• Sports equipment a big noise in equestrianism?
• Shuttlecock swatter
• It can make a birdie fly