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Originally Posted by HorsemenHeist
If it was the other way around and JV put a foreign jockey into the rail, there would be no suspension.
Jockeys don't get 15 days for putting horses into the rail while traveling at racing speed. Absolutely ridiculous.
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He's fortunate he only got fifteen days.
He used a defenseless, tired race horse as a weapon to commit assault on another rider who was galloping out on another defenseless, tired race horse.
It was an egregious lack of professionalism.
What would you say if the other rider or one or both of the horses had been seriously injured?
If I was a NYRA steward I would have to think long and hard before allowing him to ride again at a track under my jurisdiction.
What would I say to the owner of a dead horse or the family of a paralyzed rider?
