Ex-jockey Nikolic to fight perjury charge

Former jockey Danny Nikolic will seek to have a perjury charge over a Melbourne car crash thrown out.

Nikolic, 39, has been accused of lying in sworn evidence this year to beat a dangerous driving charge after his car crashed in Melbourne's south in March 2012.

He entered pleas of not guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday to charges of perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg ordered Nikolic to stand trial in the Victorian County Court.

Nikolic's barrister, Michael O'Connell SC, told the court he would apply to have a permanent stay of the charges.

Nikolic, of South Melbourne, was granted bail to face a directions hearing in the county court on Tuesday.

Nikolic, who won the 2003 Caulfield Cup aboard Mummify, is banned from racing until October 2015, and will have to reapply for his racing licence at the end of the suspension.