The_Knight_Sky
09-22-2010, 06:20 PM
Reyes given 30-day suspension for weighing out with prohibited item
http://www.drf.com/news/reyes-given-30-day-suspension-weighing-out-prohibited-item
(Jockey Christian Santiago) Reyes was assigned to carry 118 pounds aboard Jenny Jenny Emily, but weighed out in the jockeys’ room before the race at 116.5 pounds. According to the statement of decision, Reyes was asked to step on the scale a second time when Hollywood Park clerk of scales Ruben Hernandez testified that he noticed a bulge in Reyes’s pant leg, above the boot near his left knee. Hernandez felt the object, and determined that it was a one-pound weight.
Hernandez ordered Reyes off the scale, told him to remove the object and then watched the jockey step on the scale and weigh out at the correct weight. After track stewards were alerted of the situation, Reyes was asked to weigh out a fourth time :blush: in the presence of racing board investigators.
The stewards did not agree, writing in the statement of decision “In reality, the identity of the item is not important, rather the presence of that item is the fact that is germane to the rule.”
http://www.drf.com/news/reyes-given-30-day-suspension-weighing-out-prohibited-item
(Jockey Christian Santiago) Reyes was assigned to carry 118 pounds aboard Jenny Jenny Emily, but weighed out in the jockeys’ room before the race at 116.5 pounds. According to the statement of decision, Reyes was asked to step on the scale a second time when Hollywood Park clerk of scales Ruben Hernandez testified that he noticed a bulge in Reyes’s pant leg, above the boot near his left knee. Hernandez felt the object, and determined that it was a one-pound weight.
Hernandez ordered Reyes off the scale, told him to remove the object and then watched the jockey step on the scale and weigh out at the correct weight. After track stewards were alerted of the situation, Reyes was asked to weigh out a fourth time :blush: in the presence of racing board investigators.
The stewards did not agree, writing in the statement of decision “In reality, the identity of the item is not important, rather the presence of that item is the fact that is germane to the rule.”